James Stephenson
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James Stephenson was a British actor best known for his acclaimed supporting roles in Hollywood films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Stephenson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514955 — 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: James Stephenson Context triple: [The Letter (1940 film), starring, James Stephenson]
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A.
Sam Stephenson
Sam Stephenson is a software developer best known for creating the rbenv Ruby version management tool and contributing to various open-source projects.
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B.
William Stephens
William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
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C.
John Henry Brodribb
John Henry Brodribb, better known as Sir Henry Irving, was a renowned 19th-century English stage actor and the first actor to be knighted.
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D.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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E.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
- 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: James Stephenson Target entity description: James Stephenson was a British actor best known for his acclaimed supporting roles in Hollywood films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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A.
Sam Stephenson
Sam Stephenson is a software developer best known for creating the rbenv Ruby version management tool and contributing to various open-source projects.
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B.
William Stephens
William Stephens was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923.
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C.
John Henry Brodribb
John Henry Brodribb, better known as Sir Henry Irving, was a renowned 19th-century English stage actor and the first actor to be knighted.
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D.
James Staniford
James Staniford is a central character in William Dean Howells’s novel "The Lady of the Aroostook," serving as the intelligent, somewhat skeptical American gentleman whose evolving feelings toward the heroine drive much of the story’s romantic and social drama.
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E.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
- 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: James Stephenson Description of subject: James Stephenson was a British actor best known for his acclaimed supporting roles in Hollywood films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.