Rulon Jeffs
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Rulon Jeffs was the longtime prophet and president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, known for leading the polygamist sect before his son Warren Jeffs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rulon Jeffs canonical | 2 |
| Rulon | 1 |
| Rulon Jeffs as FLDS leader | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2087809 — 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: Rulon Jeffs Context triple: [Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, hasFormerLeader, Rulon Jeffs]
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A.
Dale Hunter
Dale Hunter is a former Canadian NHL center known for his gritty, physical play and leadership, most notably with the Washington Capitals.
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B.
Randy Boyd
Randy Boyd is an American businessman and philanthropist who serves as the president of the University of Tennessee system.
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C.
Bryan Foy
Bryan Foy was an American film producer and director, known as one of the pioneering figures of early sound cinema at Warner Bros.
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D.
Shep Crawford
Shep Crawford is an American R&B songwriter and record producer best known for crafting hit ballads for artists like Whitney Houston, Tamia, and Deborah Cox.
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E.
Brett Veach
Brett Veach is an American football executive best known for building multiple Super Bowl–winning rosters as the general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 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: Rulon Jeffs Target entity description: Rulon Jeffs was the longtime prophet and president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, known for leading the polygamist sect before his son Warren Jeffs.
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A.
Dale Hunter
Dale Hunter is a former Canadian NHL center known for his gritty, physical play and leadership, most notably with the Washington Capitals.
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B.
Randy Boyd
Randy Boyd is an American businessman and philanthropist who serves as the president of the University of Tennessee system.
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C.
Bryan Foy
Bryan Foy was an American film producer and director, known as one of the pioneering figures of early sound cinema at Warner Bros.
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D.
Shep Crawford
Shep Crawford is an American R&B songwriter and record producer best known for crafting hit ballads for artists like Whitney Houston, Tamia, and Deborah Cox.
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E.
Brett Veach
Brett Veach is an American football executive best known for building multiple Super Bowl–winning rosters as the general manager of the Kansas City Chiefs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
polygamist ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Short Creek community ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1909-12-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Salt Lake City
ⓘ
surface form:
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
|
| burialPlace |
Hildale, Utah
ⓘ
surface form:
Hildale, Utah, United States
|
| causeOfDeath | congestive heart failure ⓘ |
| child | Warren Jeffs ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfActivity |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateBecameLeaderOfFLDS | 1986 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2002-09-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
St. George, Utah
ⓘ
surface form:
St. George, Utah, United States
|
| doctrinePromoted |
celestial plural marriage
ⓘ
strict obedience to FLDS leadership ⓘ |
| era |
20th century
ⓘ
early 21st century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Jeffs ⓘ |
| fullName | Rulon Timpson Jeffs ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Rulon Jeffs
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Rulon
|
| ideology | patriarchal authoritarianism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
ⓘ
promoting and practicing polygamy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leaderOf | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ⓘ |
| movement | Mormon fundamentalist movement ⓘ |
| notableEvent | consolidation of FLDS leadership after Leroy S. Johnson’s death ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Warren Jeffs ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | more than 60 ⓘ |
| numberOfWives | dozens ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
ⓘ
President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ⓘ
surface form:
prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
|
| practiced | plural marriage ⓘ |
| predecessor | Leroy S. Johnson ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Arizona
ⓘ
Utah ⓘ |
| religion |
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
ⓘ
Mormon fundamentalism ⓘ |
| residence |
Colorado City, Arizona
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado City, Arizona, United States
Hildale, Utah ⓘ
surface form:
Hildale, Utah, United States
|
| selfDeclaredTitle |
president of the priesthood
ⓘ
prophet ⓘ |
| successor | Warren Jeffs ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rulon Jeffs Description of subject: Rulon Jeffs was the longtime prophet and president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, known for leading the polygamist sect before his son Warren Jeffs.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rulon Jeffs as FLDS leader
this entity surface form:
Rulon