Bradley
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Bradley is a central character in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," depicted as the aggressive, amputee son whose disturbing behavior reflects the family's deep dysfunction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bradley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592648 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bradley Context triple: [Buried Child, hasCharacter, Bradley]
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A.
Bradley
Bradley is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across sports, politics, entertainment, and other fields.
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B.
Bradley
Bradley is a locality in England historically associated with the life and death of the pioneering ironmaster John Wilkinson.
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C.
Bradley
Bradley is a small unincorporated community located in Raleigh County, West Virginia, known primarily as a residential area near the city of Beckley.
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D.
Bradley
Bradley is the commonly used short name for Bradley University, a private university located in Peoria, Illinois.
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Bradley
Bradley is the given first name of Brad Stevens, an American professional basketball executive and former head coach of the Boston Celtics.
- 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: Bradley Target entity description: Bradley is a central character in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," depicted as the aggressive, amputee son whose disturbing behavior reflects the family's deep dysfunction.
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Bradley
Bradley is the given first name of American actor BD Wong, known for his roles in film, television, and theater.
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B.
Bradley
Bradley is a locality in England historically associated with the life and death of the pioneering ironmaster John Wilkinson.
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C.
Bradley
Bradley is the commonly used short name for Bradley University, a private university located in Peoria, Illinois.
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D.
Bradley
Bradley is the given first name of Brad Stevens, an American professional basketball executive and former head coach of the Boston Celtics.
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Bradley
Bradley is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across sports, politics, entertainment, and other fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Buried Child ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | drama ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
alienation
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disability ⓘ family secrets ⓘ power and control ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| createdBy | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| familyName | Dodge family ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Buried Child universe
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linked to:
Buried Child
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| firstPerformanceOfWork | 1978 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFather | Dodge ⓘ |
| hasMother | Halie ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalDisability | leg amputation ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Ansel
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Tilden ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
aggressive
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bullying ⓘ controlling ⓘ violent tendencies ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| nationalContext | rural American Midwest ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
decay of the American family
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family dysfunction ⓘ psychological mutilation ⓘ |
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: Bradley Description of subject: Bradley is a central character in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," depicted as the aggressive, amputee son whose disturbing behavior reflects the family's deep dysfunction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.