Chaz Bono
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Chaz Bono is an American writer, musician, and LGBTQ+ advocate best known as a prominent transgender activist and the only child of entertainers Cher and Sonny Bono.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chaz Bono canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972354 — 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: Chaz Bono Context triple: [Cher, child, Chaz Bono]
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A.
Blazes Boylan
Blazes Boylan is a charismatic and womanizing Dublin music promoter best known as Molly Bloom’s lover in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
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B.
Cam Gigandet
Cam Gigandet is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "Twilight," "Never Back Down," and various television series.
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C.
Mika Guillory
Mika Guillory is a music producer known for work on the pop/R&B album "Songs About Girls."
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D.
Ken Daurio
Ken Daurio is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular animated films such as Despicable Me, The Lorax, and The Secret Life of Pets.
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E.
Simon Channing Williams
Simon Channing Williams was a British film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Mike Leigh on acclaimed independent films such as "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
- 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: Chaz Bono Target entity description: Chaz Bono is an American writer, musician, and LGBTQ+ advocate best known as a prominent transgender activist and the only child of entertainers Cher and Sonny Bono.
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A.
Blazes Boylan
Blazes Boylan is a charismatic and womanizing Dublin music promoter best known as Molly Bloom’s lover in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
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B.
Cam Gigandet
Cam Gigandet is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "Twilight," "Never Back Down," and various television series.
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C.
Mika Guillory
Mika Guillory is a music producer known for work on the pop/R&B album "Songs About Girls."
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D.
Ken Daurio
Ken Daurio is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing popular animated films such as Despicable Me, The Lorax, and The Secret Life of Pets.
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E.
Simon Channing Williams
Simon Channing Williams was a British film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Mike Leigh on acclaimed independent films such as "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBTQ+ activist
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ transgender man ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| advocacyArea |
LGBTQ+ rights
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transgender rights ⓘ |
| authorOf |
Family Outing
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The End of Innocence ⓘ Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man ⓘ |
| birthName | Chastity Sun Bono ⓘ |
| childAppearanceAs |
Chastity Sun Bono
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surface form:
Chastity Bono
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1969-03-04 ⓘ |
| familyName | Bono ⓘ |
| genderIdentity | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Chaz ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity |
Armenian-American descent (through Cher)
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Italian-American descent (through Cher) ⓘ Sicilian-American descent (through Sonny Bono) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour ⓘ |
| name | Chaz Bono self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
publicly announced gender transition in 2009
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publicly came out as lesbian in the 1990s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a prominent transgender activist
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being the only child of Cher and Sonny Bono ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Family Outing
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The End of Innocence ⓘ Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man ⓘ |
| occupation |
LGBTQ+ rights activist
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actor ⓘ musician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| onlyChildOf |
Cher
ⓘ
Sonny Bono ⓘ |
| parent |
Cher
ⓘ
Sonny Bono ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 13)
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surface form:
Dancing with the Stars (US) season 13
|
| placeOfBirth |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexualOrientation | lesbian (prior to transition) ⓘ |
| sibling |
Elijah Blue Allman
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surface form:
Elijah Blue Allman (half-brother)
other half-siblings from Sonny Bono ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Becoming Chaz ⓘ |
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: Chaz Bono Description of subject: Chaz Bono is an American writer, musician, and LGBTQ+ advocate best known as a prominent transgender activist and the only child of entertainers Cher and Sonny Bono.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.