Stone
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Stone is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across history, including figures in religion, politics, arts, and sciences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stone canonical | 51 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T388284 — 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: Stone Context triple: [Barton W. Stone, familyName, Stone]
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A.
Black Stone
The Black Stone is a revered Islamic relic set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, which pilgrims traditionally try to touch or kiss during the Hajj and Umrah rituals.
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B.
Crystal
Crystal is a feminine given name often associated with clarity and beauty, derived from the English word for clear, transparent mineral or glass.
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C.
Quartz
Quartz is a digital news outlet known for its global business journalism, data-driven reporting, and mobile-first storytelling.
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D.
Touchstone
Touchstone is a publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of commercial fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
Like a Stone
"Like a Stone" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Audioslave, renowned for Chris Cornell’s haunting vocals and reflective lyrics on mortality and longing.
- 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: Stone Target entity description: Stone is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across history, including figures in religion, politics, arts, and sciences.
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A.
Black Stone
The Black Stone is a revered Islamic relic set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, which pilgrims traditionally try to touch or kiss during the Hajj and Umrah rituals.
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B.
Crystal
Crystal is a feminine given name often associated with clarity and beauty, derived from the English word for clear, transparent mineral or glass.
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C.
Quartz
Quartz is a digital news outlet known for its global business journalism, data-driven reporting, and mobile-first storytelling.
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D.
Touchstone
Touchstone is a publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of commercial fiction and nonfiction titles.
-
E.
Like a Stone
"Like a Stone" is a melancholic, introspective rock ballad by Audioslave, renowned for Chris Cornell’s haunting vocals and reflective lyrics on mortality and longing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
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: Stone Description of subject: Stone is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across history, including figures in religion, politics, arts, and sciences.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Justice Harlan F. Stone
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Stone
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Stone
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Stone
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Stone
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Stone
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Stone
subject linked to:
Stone
subject linked to:
Stone
subject linked to:
Stone
subject linked to:
Stone
subject linked to:
Stone
subject linked to:
Stone
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Stone
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Biz
subject linked to:
James Hicks Stone
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Fiske
subject linked to:
William Stone
subject linked to:
William Stone
subject linked to:
William Stone
subject linked to:
William Stone
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William Stone
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Michael Stone
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Justice Stone
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Sir Richard Stone