Bill Stoner
E1575339
UNEXPLORED
Bill Stoner is a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detective known for assisting author James Ellroy in re-investigating his mother's unsolved 1958 murder, as chronicled in the memoir "My Dark Places."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Stoner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23196376 — 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 Stoner Context triple: [My Dark Places, investigationPartner, Bill Stoner]
-
A.
Rob Stoner
Rob Stoner is an American musician and bassist best known for his work with Bob Dylan during the Rolling Thunder Revue era.
-
B.
Bob Stone
Bob Stone is a central white plantation heir whose fraught relationship with the Black protagonist drives the racial and emotional conflict in Jean Toomer’s short story "Blood-Burning Moon."
-
C.
Bob Stone
Bob Stone is a fictional character from the action-comedy film "Central Intelligence," portrayed as a formerly bullied outsider who becomes a highly skilled and muscular CIA agent.
-
D.
Bob Stone
Bob Stone is an American songwriter best known for writing Cher’s 1971 hit single “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves.”
-
E.
Fred Stone
Fred Stone was an American stage and film actor, dancer, and vaudevillian best known for his comedic roles in early 20th-century Broadway productions.
- 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 Stoner Target entity description: Bill Stoner is a former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detective known for assisting author James Ellroy in re-investigating his mother's unsolved 1958 murder, as chronicled in the memoir "My Dark Places."
-
A.
Rob Stoner
Rob Stoner is an American musician and bassist best known for his work with Bob Dylan during the Rolling Thunder Revue era.
-
B.
Bob Stone
Bob Stone is a central white plantation heir whose fraught relationship with the Black protagonist drives the racial and emotional conflict in Jean Toomer’s short story "Blood-Burning Moon."
-
C.
Bob Stone
Bob Stone is a fictional character from the action-comedy film "Central Intelligence," portrayed as a formerly bullied outsider who becomes a highly skilled and muscular CIA agent.
-
D.
Bob Stone
Bob Stone is an American songwriter best known for writing Cher’s 1971 hit single “Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves.”
-
E.
Fred Stone
Fred Stone was an American stage and film actor, dancer, and vaudevillian best known for his comedic roles in early 20th-century Broadway productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.