Bohny
E282631
Bohny is the birth surname of American silent-film star Billie Dove, who was born Lillian Bohny.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bohny canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2615724 — 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: Bohny Context triple: [Billie Dove, familyName, Bohny]
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A.
Jonah Bobo
Jonah Bobo is an American actor best known for his childhood roles in films like "Zathura: A Space Adventure" and for voicing the main character in the animated series "The Backyardigans."
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B.
Benny
Benny is a common diminutive form of the given name Benedict, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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C.
Bronson
Bronson is a 2008 British biographical crime film in which Tom Hardy portrays the notoriously violent prisoner Charles Bronson.
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D.
Barry
Barry is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as music, politics, and sports.
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E.
Barry
Barry is a dark comedy-drama television series that follows a depressed hitman who discovers a passion for acting while trying to escape his violent past.
- 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: Bohny Target entity description: Bohny is the birth surname of American silent-film star Billie Dove, who was born Lillian Bohny.
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A.
Jonah Bobo
Jonah Bobo is an American actor best known for his childhood roles in films like "Zathura: A Space Adventure" and for voicing the main character in the animated series "The Backyardigans."
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B.
Benny
Benny is a common diminutive form of the given name Benedict, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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C.
Bronson
Bronson is a 2008 British biographical crime film in which Tom Hardy portrays the notoriously violent prisoner Charles Bronson.
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D.
Barry
Barry is a dark comedy-drama television series that follows a depressed hitman who discovers a passion for acting while trying to escape his violent past.
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E.
Barry
Barry is a coastal town and popular seaside resort in the Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales, known for Barry Island and its beaches.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Lillian Bohny ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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silent-film actress ⓘ |
| stageName | Billie Dove ⓘ |
| usedBy | Lillian Bohny ⓘ |
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: Bohny Description of subject: Bohny is the birth surname of American silent-film star Billie Dove, who was born Lillian Bohny.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.