Stephen Boyd
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Stephen Boyd was an Irish-born actor best known for his Golden Globe–winning role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Boyd canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008694 — 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 Boyd Context triple: [Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Stephen Boyd]
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A.
Stephen P. Boyd
Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor of electrical engineering and a leading expert in convex optimization and control theory, widely recognized for his influential research and textbooks in these fields.
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B.
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and cryptography, including contributions to complexity theory and algorithm design.
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C.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
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D.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
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E.
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and former OpenAI research leader known for his work on large language models and AI safety.
- 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 Boyd Target entity description: Stephen Boyd was an Irish-born actor best known for his Golden Globe–winning role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
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A.
Stephen P. Boyd
Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor of electrical engineering and a leading expert in convex optimization and control theory, widely recognized for his influential research and textbooks in these fields.
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B.
Richard Lipton
Richard Lipton is an American computer scientist known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and cryptography, including contributions to complexity theory and algorithm design.
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C.
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
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D.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
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E.
Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and former OpenAI research leader known for his work on large language models and AI safety.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Boyd Description of subject: Stephen Boyd was an Irish-born actor best known for his Golden Globe–winning role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California, United States
subject linked to:
Messala in Ben-Hur