Richard Steele
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Richard Steele is a former American boxing referee best known for officiating numerous high-profile championship bouts during the 1980s and 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
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| Richard Steele canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21911398 — 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: Richard Steele Context triple: [Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns, referee, Richard Steele]
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Richard Steele
Richard Steele was an influential early 18th-century Irish writer, essayist, and co-founder of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator, central to the development of English Augustan prose.
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B.
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison was an influential early 18th-century English essayist, poet, and politician best known for co-founding and writing for the periodicals The Spectator and The Tatler.
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C.
Samuel W. Johnson
Samuel W. Johnson was a 19th-century American chemist and agricultural scientist who played a key role in organizing the chemical profession in the United States.
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D.
Lord Addison
Lord Addison was a prominent British Labour politician and peer who held several senior government posts in the early to mid-20th century, including key roles in post-World War II imperial and Commonwealth policy.
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E.
Thomas Tickell
Thomas Tickell was an early 18th-century English poet and translator associated with Joseph Addison and the Whig literary circle.
- 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: Richard Steele Target entity description: Richard Steele is a former American boxing referee best known for officiating numerous high-profile championship bouts during the 1980s and 1990s.
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A.
Richard Steele
Richard Steele was an influential early 18th-century Irish writer, essayist, and co-founder of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator, central to the development of English Augustan prose.
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B.
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison was an influential early 18th-century English essayist, poet, and politician best known for co-founding and writing for the periodicals The Spectator and The Tatler.
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C.
Samuel W. Johnson
Samuel W. Johnson was a 19th-century American chemist and agricultural scientist who played a key role in organizing the chemical profession in the United States.
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D.
Lord Addison
Lord Addison was a prominent British Labour politician and peer who held several senior government posts in the early to mid-20th century, including key roles in post-World War II imperial and Commonwealth policy.
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E.
Thomas Tickell
Thomas Tickell was an early 18th-century English poet and translator associated with Joseph Addison and the Whig literary circle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.