Carl B. Stokes
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Carl B. Stokes was a pioneering American politician and civil rights figure best known as the first Black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland, Ohio.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carl B. Stokes canonical | 5 |
| Carl Stokes | 2 |
| Carl B. Stokes, former mayor of Cleveland | 1 |
| Carl Burton Stokes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4136563 — 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: Carl B. Stokes Context triple: [Lake View Cemetery, notableBurial, Carl B. Stokes]
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A.
William Howard Thompson
William Howard Thompson was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas in the early 20th century.
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B.
Cleveland Orenthal Brown Jr.
Cleveland Orenthal Brown Jr. is a fictional character from the animated TV series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show, known as Cleveland Brown's soft-spoken, overweight son.
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C.
Charles Tiffin
Charles Tiffin was a 19th-century architect best known for designing prominent public buildings in Queensland, Australia.
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D.
Robert P. Patterson
Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
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E.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
- 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: Carl B. Stokes Target entity description: Carl B. Stokes was a pioneering American politician and civil rights figure best known as the first Black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland, Ohio.
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A.
William Howard Thompson
William Howard Thompson was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas in the early 20th century.
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B.
Cleveland Orenthal Brown Jr.
Cleveland Orenthal Brown Jr. is a fictional character from the animated TV series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show, known as Cleveland Brown's soft-spoken, overweight son.
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C.
Charles Tiffin
Charles Tiffin was a 19th-century architect best known for designing prominent public buildings in Queensland, Australia.
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D.
Robert P. Patterson
Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
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E.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Carl B. Stokes Description of subject: Carl B. Stokes was a pioneering American politician and civil rights figure best known as the first Black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland, Ohio.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
linked to: Carl B. Stokes
linked to: Carl B. Stokes
linked to: Carl B. Stokes
linked to: Carl B. Stokes