Charles Black (married 1955; divorced)
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Charles Black (married 1955; divorced) is known primarily as the first husband of American actress Karen Black, whom she wed in 1955 before their subsequent divorce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Black (married 1955; divorced) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1650881 — 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: Charles Black (married 1955; divorced) Context triple: [Karen Black, spouse, Charles Black (married 1955; divorced)]
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A.
Margarete (second wife)
Margarete was the second wife of Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and a leading figure of the English Reformation.
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B.
Cecilia Suyat Marshall
Cecilia Suyat Marshall was a Filipino American civil rights activist and longtime NAACP staff member who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement and was married to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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C.
Sharon Black
Sharon Black is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Black recognizable in her context.
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D.
Les Harrison
Les Harrison was an American basketball coach and executive best known for leading the Rochester Royals to an NBA championship and later owning the franchise.
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E.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
- 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: Charles Black (married 1955; divorced) Target entity description: Charles Black (married 1955; divorced) is known primarily as the first husband of American actress Karen Black, whom she wed in 1955 before their subsequent divorce.
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A.
Margarete (second wife)
Margarete was the second wife of Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and a leading figure of the English Reformation.
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B.
Cecilia Suyat Marshall
Cecilia Suyat Marshall was a Filipino American civil rights activist and longtime NAACP staff member who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement and was married to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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C.
Sharon Black
Sharon Black is a notable individual whose achievements or public presence have made the surname Black recognizable in her context.
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D.
Les Harrison
Les Harrison was an American basketball coach and executive best known for leading the Rochester Royals to an NBA championship and later owning the franchise.
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E.
Katherine Rogers
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| marriageStart |
1955
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1955 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first husband of Karen Black ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles Black (married 1955; divorced)
self-linksurface differs
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Karen Black ⓘ |
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: Charles Black (married 1955; divorced) Description of subject: Charles Black (married 1955; divorced) is known primarily as the first husband of American actress Karen Black, whom she wed in 1955 before their subsequent divorce.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Charles Black (married 1955; divorced)
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spouse
→
Charles Black (married 1955; divorced)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Karen Black