Bill Perkins
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Bill Perkins is an American hedge fund manager, high-stakes poker player, and author known for his book "Die With Zero" and his appearances in televised poker games.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Perkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8815441 — 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: Bill Perkins Context triple: [Perkins, hasNotableBearer, Bill Perkins]
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A.
Milt Stegall
Milt Stegall is a former Canadian Football League star wide receiver widely regarded as one of the greatest players in CFL history, holding multiple all-time receiving and touchdown records.
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B.
Rudy Lewis
Rudy Lewis was an American rhythm and blues singer best known as a lead vocalist for the influential vocal group The Drifters in the early 1960s.
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C.
Roy Tarpley
Roy Tarpley was an American professional basketball player, best known as a talented but troubled Dallas Mavericks big man whose NBA career was derailed by substance abuse issues.
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D.
Nate Thurmond
Nate Thurmond was an American Hall of Fame center renowned for his dominant defense and rebounding during a stellar NBA career primarily with the San Francisco/Golden State Warriors.
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E.
Charles Haley
Charles Haley is a former NFL linebacker and defensive end renowned for being the first player to win five Super Bowl championships, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys.
- 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: Bill Perkins Target entity description: Bill Perkins is an American hedge fund manager, high-stakes poker player, and author known for his book "Die With Zero" and his appearances in televised poker games.
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A.
Milt Stegall
Milt Stegall is a former Canadian Football League star wide receiver widely regarded as one of the greatest players in CFL history, holding multiple all-time receiving and touchdown records.
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B.
Rudy Lewis
Rudy Lewis was an American rhythm and blues singer best known as a lead vocalist for the influential vocal group The Drifters in the early 1960s.
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C.
Roy Tarpley
Roy Tarpley was an American professional basketball player, best known as a talented but troubled Dallas Mavericks big man whose NBA career was derailed by substance abuse issues.
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D.
Nate Thurmond
Nate Thurmond was an American Hall of Fame center renowned for his dominant defense and rebounding during a stellar NBA career primarily with the San Francisco/Golden State Warriors.
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E.
Charles Haley
Charles Haley is a former NFL linebacker and defensive end renowned for being the first player to win five Super Bowl championships, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hedge fund manager
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human ⓘ poker player ⓘ |
| appearsIn | televised poker broadcasts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
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investment management ⓘ poker ⓘ writing ⓘ |
| genre |
personal finance
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self-help literature ⓘ |
| hasRole |
hedge fund principal
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non-fiction writer ⓘ poker enthusiast ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
book Die With Zero
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high-stakes poker games ⓘ televised poker appearances ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
die with zero philosophy
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spending down wealth for life experiences ⓘ |
| notableWork | Die With Zero ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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hedge fund manager ⓘ high-stakes poker player ⓘ |
| participatesIn |
high-stakes cash games
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poker tournaments ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
lifestyle design
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maximizing life experiences ⓘ wealth management ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
money and happiness
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retirement planning ⓘ time versus money tradeoffs ⓘ |
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: Bill Perkins Description of subject: Bill Perkins is an American hedge fund manager, high-stakes poker player, and author known for his book "Die With Zero" and his appearances in televised poker games.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.