Blazes Boylan
E105638
Blazes Boylan is a charismatic and womanizing Dublin music promoter best known as Molly Bloom’s lover in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blazes Boylan canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T896790 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blazes Boylan Context triple: [Ulysses, notableCharacter, Blazes Boylan]
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A.
Patrick Dodson
Patrick Dodson is an Australian Aboriginal leader, activist, and politician widely regarded as the "father of reconciliation" for his work advancing Indigenous rights and social justice.
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B.
Drew Bagnell
Drew Bagnell is a roboticist and machine learning researcher known for his work in autonomous systems and his role as a co-founder and chief scientist at Aurora Innovation.
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C.
John Pleffer
John Pleffer is an Australian architect best known as the husband of acclaimed film director Gillian Armstrong.
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D.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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E.
Paul Merolla
Paul Merolla is a neuroscientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Neuralink, the neurotechnology company developing brain–computer interfaces.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blazes Boylan Target entity description: Blazes Boylan is a charismatic and womanizing Dublin music promoter best known as Molly Bloom’s lover in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
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A.
Michael Barrett
Michael Barrett is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous feature films and television projects, including mainstream comedies and action movies.
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B.
Patrick Dodson
Patrick Dodson is an Australian Aboriginal leader, activist, and politician widely regarded as the "father of reconciliation" for his work advancing Indigenous rights and social justice.
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C.
Drew Bagnell
Drew Bagnell is a roboticist and machine learning researcher known for his work in autonomous systems and his role as a co-founder and chief scientist at Aurora Innovation.
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D.
John Pleffer
John Pleffer is an Australian architect best known as the husband of acclaimed film director Gillian Armstrong.
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E.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Blazes Boylan Description of subject: Blazes Boylan is a charismatic and womanizing Dublin music promoter best known as Molly Bloom’s lover in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.