Larry Romans
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Larry Romans was an influential American librarian and LGBTQ+ advocate known for his leadership in the American Library Association and his work advancing LGBTQ+ representation and rights in libraries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Romans canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4979616 — 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 Romans Context triple: [Stonewall Book Award, sponsor, Larry Romans]
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A.
Jeff Ruland
Jeff Ruland is a former American professional basketball player and coach best known for his All-Star NBA career as a center in the 1980s, primarily with the Washington Bullets.
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B.
Gary Dornhoefer
Gary Dornhoefer is a former Canadian right winger best known for his gritty play and clutch scoring with the Philadelphia Flyers during their "Broad Street Bullies" era in the 1970s.
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C.
Phil Brommell
Phil Brommell is a fictional character from the television crime drama series "The District."
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D.
Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in films like "Do the Right Thing" and the "Spider-Man" trilogy.
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E.
Jeff Richmond
Jeff Richmond is an American composer, producer, and director known for his work on television comedies such as "30 Rock" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
- 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 Romans Target entity description: Larry Romans was an influential American librarian and LGBTQ+ advocate known for his leadership in the American Library Association and his work advancing LGBTQ+ representation and rights in libraries.
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A.
Jeff Ruland
Jeff Ruland is a former American professional basketball player and coach best known for his All-Star NBA career as a center in the 1980s, primarily with the Washington Bullets.
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B.
Gary Dornhoefer
Gary Dornhoefer is a former Canadian right winger best known for his gritty play and clutch scoring with the Philadelphia Flyers during their "Broad Street Bullies" era in the 1970s.
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C.
Phil Brommell
Phil Brommell is a fictional character from the television crime drama series "The District."
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D.
Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in films like "Do the Right Thing" and the "Spider-Man" trilogy.
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E.
Jeff Richmond
Jeff Richmond is an American composer, producer, and director known for his work on television comedies such as "30 Rock" and "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBTQ+ rights activist
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award ⓘ human ⓘ librarian ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
LGBTQ+ representation in library policies
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civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people ⓘ inclusive cataloging and subject headings for LGBTQ+ topics ⓘ |
| areaOfActivism |
intellectual freedom for LGBTQ+ materials
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library policy ⓘ |
| awardedFor | mentorship and support of LGBTQ+ librarians and library workers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Vanderbilt University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
LGBTQ+ rights
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library science ⓘ |
| hasAwardNamedAfter | Larry Romans Mentorship Award ⓘ |
| influenced |
LGBTQ+ collection development practices in libraries
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LGBTQ+ library professionals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
mentoring LGBTQ+ librarians
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promoting LGBTQ+ materials in library collections ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Library Association
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association ⓘ |
| movement | LGBTQ+ rights movement ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Larry Romans ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion in libraries
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leadership in the American Library Association ⓘ |
| occupation |
LGBTQ+ advocate
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librarian ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
councilor in the American Library Association Council
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member of the ALA Executive Board ⓘ president of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association ⓘ |
| supported |
diversity and equity initiatives within the American Library Association
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inclusion of LGBTQ+ issues in ALA resolutions ⓘ |
| workLocation | Nashville, Tennessee ⓘ |
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 Romans Description of subject: Larry Romans was an influential American librarian and LGBTQ+ advocate known for his leadership in the American Library Association and his work advancing LGBTQ+ representation and rights in libraries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Larry Romans