Boyd Black
E540744
Boyd Black is known as the former husband of American actress Kelly McGillis, who gained fame for her role in the film "Top Gun."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boyd Black canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5692597 — 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: Boyd Black Context triple: [Kelly McGillis, spouse, Boyd Black]
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A.
Boyd Atkins
Boyd Atkins was an American jazz saxophonist and composer active in the early 20th century, known for his work with prominent Chicago and New Orleans bands.
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B.
Ken Blackwell
Ken Blackwell is a film editor known for his work on major action movies, including the 2010 film "The Expendables."
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C.
Shaffer Smith
Shaffer Smith, better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer renowned for crafting numerous R&B and pop hits for himself and other artists.
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D.
William Bohannon
William Bohannon is the son of Cullen Bohannon, the central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels."
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E.
Bruce Petway
Bruce Petway was an early 20th-century Negro leagues catcher renowned for his defensive skills and strong throwing arm, considered one of the best catchers of his era.
- 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: Boyd Black Target entity description: Boyd Black is known as the former husband of American actress Kelly McGillis, who gained fame for her role in the film "Top Gun."
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A.
Boyd Atkins
Boyd Atkins was an American jazz saxophonist and composer active in the early 20th century, known for his work with prominent Chicago and New Orleans bands.
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B.
Ken Blackwell
Ken Blackwell is a film editor known for his work on major action movies, including the 2010 film "The Expendables."
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C.
Shaffer Smith
Shaffer Smith, better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer renowned for crafting numerous R&B and pop hits for himself and other artists.
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D.
William Bohannon
William Bohannon is the son of Cullen Bohannon, the central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels."
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E.
Bruce Petway
Bruce Petway was an early 20th-century Negro leagues catcher renowned for his defensive skills and strong throwing arm, considered one of the best catchers of his era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the former husband of actress Kelly McGillis ⓘ |
| notableWork | Top Gun ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| spouse |
Boyd Black
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Kelly McGillis ⓘ |
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: Boyd Black Description of subject: Boyd Black is known as the former husband of American actress Kelly McGillis, who gained fame for her role in the film "Top Gun."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Boyd Black