Sky Masterson
E516743
Sky Masterson is a suave, high-stakes gambler and romantic lead from the classic musical "Guys and Dolls."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sky Masterson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5398195 — 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: Sky Masterson Context triple: [Guys and Dolls, originalBroadwayLeadCharacter, Sky Masterson]
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A.
Heath Fogg
Heath Fogg is an American guitarist best known as a member of the Grammy-winning rock band Alabama Shakes.
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B.
Jason Ballantine
Jason Ballantine is a film editor best known for his work on major genre films, including the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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C.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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D.
Barrett Deems
Barrett Deems was an American jazz drummer best known for his high-energy playing and for performing with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars in the 1950s.
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E.
Scott Banister
Scott Banister is an American entrepreneur and angel investor known for co-founding IronPort and early involvement with companies like PayPal and Facebook.
- 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: Sky Masterson Target entity description: Sky Masterson is a suave, high-stakes gambler and romantic lead from the classic musical "Guys and Dolls."
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A.
Heath Fogg
Heath Fogg is an American guitarist best known as a member of the Grammy-winning rock band Alabama Shakes.
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B.
Jason Ballantine
Jason Ballantine is a film editor best known for his work on major genre films, including the 2017 adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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C.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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D.
Barrett Deems
Barrett Deems was an American jazz drummer best known for his high-energy playing and for performing with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars in the 1950s.
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E.
Scott Banister
Scott Banister is an American entrepreneur and angel investor known for co-founding IronPort and early involvement with companies like PayPal and Facebook.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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gambler ⓘ musical theatre character ⓘ romantic lead ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Guys and Dolls (1955 film)
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linked to:
Guys and Dolls
various stage revivals ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Guys and Dolls
ⓘ
Guys and Dolls (musical) ⓘ
linked to:
Guys and Dolls
|
| associatedWith |
Adelaide
ⓘ
Nathan Detroit ⓘ |
| basedOn | characters from Damon Runyon stories ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charming
ⓘ
confident ⓘ risk‑taking ⓘ suave ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Abe Burrows
ⓘ
Damon Runyon ⓘ Frank Loesser ⓘ Jo Swerling ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Guys and Dolls (1950 Broadway musical)
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linked to:
Guys and Dolls
|
| franchise | Guys and Dolls ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film adaptation
ⓘ
stage musical ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
male lead
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableSong |
I’ll Know
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I’ve Never Been in Love Before ⓘ Luck Be a Lady ⓘ |
| notableTraitInPlot | bets he can take Sarah Brown to Havana ⓘ |
| occupation | professional gambler ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Ewan McGregor
ⓘ
Marlon Brando ⓘ Peter Gallagher ⓘ Robert Alda ⓘ Various stage actors ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Sarah Brown ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| stageType | Broadway character ⓘ |
| themeAssociated |
gambling
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love ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| timeOfCreation | mid‑20th century ⓘ |
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: Sky Masterson Description of subject: Sky Masterson is a suave, high-stakes gambler and romantic lead from the classic musical "Guys and Dolls."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
I’ve Never Been in Love Before
subject linked to:
Broadway production of "Guys and Dolls"