Flint
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Flint is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including musician Keith Flint of The Prodigy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flint canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4222979 — 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: Flint Context triple: [Keith Flint, familyName, Flint]
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A.
Flint, Michigan
Flint, Michigan is an industrial city in the United States best known as the birthplace of General Motors and for its central role in the American automotive industry.
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B.
Saginaw
Saginaw is a city in central Michigan known for its industrial history, location along the Saginaw River, and role as a regional economic and cultural center.
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C.
Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo is a mid-sized city in southwestern Michigan known for its historic downtown, educational institutions like Western Michigan University, and a legacy of manufacturing and craft beer.
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D.
Calumet, Michigan
Calumet, Michigan is a historic former copper mining town on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, known for its well-preserved 19th- and early 20th-century architecture and role in the region’s mining heritage.
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E.
Wyandotte, Michigan
Wyandotte, Michigan is a small industrial city and Downriver suburb of Detroit located along the western shore of the Detroit River.
- 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: Flint Target entity description: Flint is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including musician Keith Flint of The Prodigy.
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A.
Flint, Michigan
Flint, Michigan is an industrial city in the United States best known as the birthplace of General Motors and for its central role in the American automotive industry.
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B.
Saginaw
Saginaw is a city in central Michigan known for its industrial history, location along the Saginaw River, and role as a regional economic and cultural center.
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C.
Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo is a mid-sized city in southwestern Michigan known for its historic downtown, educational institutions like Western Michigan University, and a legacy of manufacturing and craft beer.
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D.
Calumet, Michigan
Calumet, Michigan is a historic former copper mining town on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, known for its well-preserved 19th- and early 20th-century architecture and role in the region’s mining heritage.
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E.
Wyandotte, Michigan
Wyandotte, Michigan is a small industrial city and Downriver suburb of Detroit located along the western shore of the Detroit River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
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human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ music group ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName |
Flint
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Flynt ⓘ |
| genre | electronic music ⓘ |
| givenName | Keith ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Austin Flint
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Caroline Flint ⓘ Eric Flint ⓘ George Washington Flint ⓘ Henry Flynt ⓘ James Flint ⓘ Keith Flint ⓘ Robert Flint ⓘ William Russell Flint ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Prodigy ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
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artist ⓘ dancer ⓘ editor ⓘ illustrator ⓘ musician ⓘ painter ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physician ⓘ politician ⓘ singer ⓘ theologian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
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: Flint Description of subject: Flint is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including musician Keith Flint of The Prodigy.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Keith Charles Flint
subject linked to:
Keith Charles Flint
subject linked to:
Keith Charles Flint
subject linked to:
Flint