Stephen Eckelberry (married 1987; her death)
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Stephen Eckelberry is an American filmmaker and producer best known as the longtime husband and collaborator of actress Karen Black.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Eckelberry (married 1987; her death) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1650884 — 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: Stephen Eckelberry (married 1987; her death) Context triple: [Karen Black, spouse, Stephen Eckelberry (married 1987; her death)]
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A.
Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark was a pioneering Brazilian artist known for her influential role in Neo-Concrete art and her participatory, sensory-based works that blurred the boundaries between art and viewer.
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B.
Barbara Stephens
Barbara Stephens was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS California (BB-44) at its launching.
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C.
Lynne Thigpen
Lynne Thigpen was an American actress known for her powerful stage, film, and television performances, including roles in "The Warriors," "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" and numerous Broadway productions.
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D.
Annette Courtemanche Kirk
Annette Courtemanche Kirk is the widow of conservative intellectual Russell Kirk and a longtime steward and promoter of his intellectual and cultural legacy.
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E.
Betty Shannon
Betty Shannon was an American mathematician and computer programmer known for her work at Bell Labs and as the wife and intellectual partner of information theory pioneer Claude Shannon.
- 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: Stephen Eckelberry (married 1987; her death) Target entity description: Stephen Eckelberry is an American filmmaker and producer best known as the longtime husband and collaborator of actress Karen Black.
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A.
Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark was a pioneering Brazilian artist known for her influential role in Neo-Concrete art and her participatory, sensory-based works that blurred the boundaries between art and viewer.
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B.
Barbara Stephens
Barbara Stephens was the woman who served as the ceremonial sponsor for the U.S. Navy battleship USS California (BB-44) at its launching.
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C.
Lynne Thigpen
Lynne Thigpen was an American actress known for her powerful stage, film, and television performances, including roles in "The Warriors," "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" and numerous Broadway productions.
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D.
Annette Courtemanche Kirk
Annette Courtemanche Kirk is the widow of conservative intellectual Russell Kirk and a longtime steward and promoter of his intellectual and cultural legacy.
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E.
Betty Shannon
Betty Shannon was an American mathematician and computer programmer known for her work at Bell Labs and as the wife and intellectual partner of information theory pioneer Claude Shannon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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film producer ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageEndCause | death of spouse ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1987 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the longtime husband of Karen Black
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collaborations with Karen Black ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
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filmmaker ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Karen Black ⓘ |
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: Stephen Eckelberry (married 1987; her death) Description of subject: Stephen Eckelberry is an American filmmaker and producer best known as the longtime husband and collaborator of actress Karen Black.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.