Jonathan Stafford
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Jonathan Stafford is an American ballet master and former principal dancer who serves as the artistic director of New York City Ballet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan Stafford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1922267 — 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: Jonathan Stafford Context triple: [New York City Ballet, artisticDirector, Jonathan Stafford]
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A.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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B.
Stanton Carlisle
Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally conflicted carnival worker-turned-conman at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley" (2021).
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C.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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D.
James Finlayson
James Finlayson was a Scottish-born character actor best known for his comic roles in silent and early sound films, particularly his frequent collaborations with the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
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E.
Andrew Humphrey
Andrew Humphrey was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff in the United Kingdom.
- 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: Jonathan Stafford Target entity description: Jonathan Stafford is an American ballet master and former principal dancer who serves as the artistic director of New York City Ballet.
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A.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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B.
Stanton Carlisle
Stanton Carlisle is the ambitious and morally conflicted carnival worker-turned-conman at the center of Guillermo del Toro’s neo-noir psychological thriller "Nightmare Alley" (2021).
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C.
Jonathan Stokes
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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D.
James Finlayson
James Finlayson was a Scottish-born character actor best known for his comic roles in silent and early sound films, particularly his frequent collaborations with the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
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E.
Andrew Humphrey
Andrew Humphrey was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff in the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic director
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ballet dancer ⓘ ballet master ⓘ human ⓘ principal dancer ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | New York City Ballet ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ballet
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dance ⓘ |
| genre | ballet ⓘ |
| hasRole |
artistic director
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ballet master ⓘ principal dancer ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York City Ballet ⓘ |
| notableFor |
career as a principal dancer at New York City Ballet
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leadership of New York City Ballet ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances with New York City Ballet ⓘ |
| occupation |
artistic director
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ballet dancer ⓘ ballet master ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| position |
artistic director of New York City Ballet
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ballet master at New York City Ballet ⓘ principal dancer at New York City Ballet ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Stafford Description of subject: Jonathan Stafford is an American ballet master and former principal dancer who serves as the artistic director of New York City Ballet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.