Bojangles
E140544
Bojangles is a 2001 television biographical film in which Gregory Hines portrays legendary tap dancer and entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bojangles canonical | 3 |
| "Bojangles" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1231017 — 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: Bojangles Context triple: [Gregory Hines, notableWork, Bojangles]
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A.
Akron Goodyear Wingfoots
The Akron Goodyear Wingfoots were an early American industrial-league basketball team sponsored by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company that became one of the most successful and influential clubs in the formative years of professional basketball.
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B.
Aldridge
Aldridge is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, entertainment, and the arts.
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C.
Frick
Frick is a surname most prominently associated with American industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick.
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D.
Thornton
Thornton is a village in Fife, Scotland, known historically for its coal mining and rail junction and now as a small residential community near Glenrothes.
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E.
Thornton
Thornton is a residential and industrial suburb in the Maitland local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
- 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: Bojangles Target entity description: Bojangles is a 2001 television biographical film in which Gregory Hines portrays legendary tap dancer and entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
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A.
Akron Goodyear Wingfoots
The Akron Goodyear Wingfoots were an early American industrial-league basketball team sponsored by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company that became one of the most successful and influential clubs in the formative years of professional basketball.
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B.
Aldridge
Aldridge is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, entertainment, and the arts.
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C.
Frick
Frick is a surname most prominently associated with American industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick.
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D.
Thornton
Thornton is a village in Fife, Scotland, known historically for its coal mining and rail junction and now as a small residential community near Glenrothes.
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E.
Thornton
Thornton is a residential and industrial suburb in the Maitland local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Bojangles Description of subject: Bojangles is a 2001 television biographical film in which Gregory Hines portrays legendary tap dancer and entertainer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.