Larry Fortensky
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Larry Fortensky was an American construction worker best known as the seventh and final husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Fortensky canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1556410 — 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: Larry Fortensky Context triple: [Elizabeth Taylor, spouse, Larry Fortensky]
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A.
Ryan Warsofsky
Ryan Warsofsky is an American professional ice hockey coach who serves as the head coach of the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.
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B.
Nick Frenkel
Nick Frenkel is a television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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C.
Gary Levinsohn
Gary Levinsohn is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood features, including the acclaimed World War II drama "Saving Private Ryan."
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D.
Mike Sokolsky
Mike Sokolsky is a co-founder of the online education platform Udacity, known for its technology-focused courses and nanodegree programs.
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E.
Vince Welnick
Vince Welnick was an American keyboardist and singer best known for serving as the Grateful Dead’s final keyboard player from 1990 until the band’s dissolution in 1995.
- 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: Larry Fortensky Target entity description: Larry Fortensky was an American construction worker best known as the seventh and final husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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A.
Ryan Warsofsky
Ryan Warsofsky is an American professional ice hockey coach who serves as the head coach of the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.
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B.
Nick Frenkel
Nick Frenkel is a television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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C.
Gary Levinsohn
Gary Levinsohn is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood features, including the acclaimed World War II drama "Saving Private Ryan."
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D.
Mike Sokolsky
Mike Sokolsky is a co-founder of the online education platform Udacity, known for its technology-focused courses and nanodegree programs.
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E.
Vince Welnick
Vince Welnick was an American keyboardist and singer best known for serving as the Grateful Dead’s final keyboard player from 1990 until the band’s dissolution in 1995.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
construction worker
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
California, United States (reported)
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| causeOfDeath | complications from skin cancer surgery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-07-07 ⓘ |
| divorcedFrom | Elizabeth Taylor ⓘ |
| divorceFromElizabethTaylorFinalized | 1996 ⓘ |
| education | dropped out of high school ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| hadHealthIssue |
head injury from 1999 fall
ⓘ
substance abuse problems ⓘ |
| hairColor | blond ⓘ |
| headInjuryConsequence | coma lasting several weeks ⓘ |
| headInjuryOccurredAt | home in San Bernardino County, California ⓘ |
| knownFor | high-profile marriage to Elizabeth Taylor ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1996 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1991 ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | tabloid press in the early 1990s ⓘ |
| metSpouseElizabethTaylorAt | Betty Ford Center ⓘ |
| metSpouseElizabethTaylorYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| militaryService |
United States Army (briefly)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States Army
|
| notableFor | being the seventh and final husband of Elizabeth Taylor ⓘ |
| occupation | construction worker ⓘ |
| parentOf | one daughter (from earlier relationship) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Stockton, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Stockton
|
| placeOfDeath |
Fontana, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Fontana, California
|
| placeOfMarriage |
Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch
ⓘ
linked to:
Neverland Ranch
|
| positionInSpouseSequence |
final husband of Elizabeth Taylor
ⓘ
seventh husband of Elizabeth Taylor ⓘ |
| postMarriageOccupation | continued working in construction intermittently ⓘ |
| receivedFromElizabethTaylorInDivorceSettlement | $1 million (reported) ⓘ |
| religion | raised in a working-class Christian family (reported) ⓘ |
| residence |
San Bernardino County, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Bernardino County
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| siblingCount | 7 ⓘ |
| spouse |
Colleen Kay Calhoun
ⓘ
Elizabeth Taylor ⓘ Priscilla Joan Torres ⓘ |
| weddingCostEstimate | approximately $1.5 million ⓘ |
| weddingDateToElizabethTaylor | 1991-10-06 ⓘ |
| weddingGuestsIncluded |
Eddie Murphy
ⓘ
Liza Minnelli ⓘ Michael Jackson ⓘ |
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: Larry Fortensky Description of subject: Larry Fortensky was an American construction worker best known as the seventh and final husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.