Larry Eugene Phillips Jr.
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Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. was one of the heavily armed bank robbers involved in the infamous 1997 North Hollywood shootout with Los Angeles police.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3649986 — 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 Eugene Phillips Jr. Context triple: [North Hollywood shootout, perpetrator, Larry Eugene Phillips Jr.]
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A.
Bo Jackson
Bo Jackson is a legendary American multi-sport athlete renowned for starring in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Marcus Allen
Marcus Allen is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back best known for his stellar NFL career with the Los Angeles Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs, including a Super Bowl XVIII MVP performance.
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C.
Desmond Howard
Desmond Howard is a former American football wide receiver and return specialist best known for winning the 1991 Heisman Trophy at Michigan and being named MVP of Super Bowl XXXI.
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D.
Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders is a Hall of Fame NFL running back renowned for his electrifying agility, elusive running style, and prolific rushing yards during the 1990s.
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E.
Russell Tyrone Jones
Russell Tyrone Jones was an American rapper and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, best known by his stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard.
- 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 Eugene Phillips Jr. Target entity description: Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. was one of the heavily armed bank robbers involved in the infamous 1997 North Hollywood shootout with Los Angeles police.
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A.
Bo Jackson
Bo Jackson is a legendary American multi-sport athlete renowned for starring in both Major League Baseball and the National Football League during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Marcus Allen
Marcus Allen is a Pro Football Hall of Fame running back best known for his stellar NFL career with the Los Angeles Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs, including a Super Bowl XVIII MVP performance.
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C.
Desmond Howard
Desmond Howard is a former American football wide receiver and return specialist best known for winning the 1991 Heisman Trophy at Michigan and being named MVP of Super Bowl XXXI.
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D.
Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders is a Hall of Fame NFL running back renowned for his electrifying agility, elusive running style, and prolific rushing yards during the 1990s.
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E.
Russell Tyrone Jones
Russell Tyrone Jones was an American rapper and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, best known by his stage name Ol' Dirty Bastard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American citizen
ⓘ
bank robber ⓘ criminal ⓘ |
| aftermath |
prompted review of police equipment standards
ⓘ
prompted review of police tactics ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Los Angeles Police Department ⓘ |
| coPerpetrator | Emil Mătăsăreanu ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalActivity |
armed robbery
ⓘ
weapons violations ⓘ |
| criminalCharge |
attempted murder
ⓘ
bank robbery ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | February 28, 1997 ⓘ |
| eventLocation | North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
| familyName | Phillips ⓘ |
| fullName | Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| injured |
civilians
ⓘ
multiple police officers ⓘ |
| inspired | changes in police armament policies in the United States ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementResponse |
LAPD patrol officers
ⓘ
SWAT officers ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | self-inflicted gunshot ⓘ |
| mediaDescription | heavily armed bank robber ⓘ |
| notableAspect |
heavy armament compared to responding police
ⓘ
prolonged firefight with police ⓘ |
| notableFor | North Hollywood shootout ⓘ |
| numberOfKnownMajorRobberies | multiple ⓘ |
| occupation | bank robber ⓘ |
| participatedIn | North Hollywood shootout ⓘ |
| perpetrated | bank robbery at Bank of America branch in North Hollywood ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| usedAmmunitionType | armor-piercing ammunition ⓘ |
| usedEquipment |
homemade body armor
ⓘ
steel plates ⓘ |
| usedWeapon |
HK-91 style rifle
ⓘ
Norinco Type 56 rifle ⓘ
linked to:
Kalashnikov rifle family
assault rifle ⓘ handgun ⓘ |
| wasSubjectOf | extensive media coverage ⓘ |
| wearsInEvent | ski mask ⓘ |
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 Eugene Phillips Jr. Description of subject: Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. was one of the heavily armed bank robbers involved in the infamous 1997 North Hollywood shootout with Los Angeles police.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.