Larry Flynt
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Larry Flynt was a controversial American publisher and free-speech advocate best known as the founder of Hustler magazine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Flynt canonical | 2 |
| Larry Claxton Flynt Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4105002 — 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: Larry Flynt Context triple: [Woody Harrelson, characterPortrayed, Larry Flynt]
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A.
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner was an American magazine publisher and cultural figure best known as the founder of Playboy and its associated lifestyle brand.
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B.
Conrad Black
Conrad Black is a Canadian-born former media mogul, historian, and author best known for building a global newspaper empire and later being convicted of fraud in the United States.
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C.
Barry Diller
Barry Diller is an American media and internet executive known for building major entertainment and digital companies, including leading Fox’s early expansion and later chairing IAC.
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D.
Seymour Durst
Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
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E.
Charles Bobbit
Charles Bobbit was an American songwriter and longtime collaborator of James Brown, best known for co-writing the classic funk track "It's a Man's Man's Man's World."
- 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: Larry Flynt Target entity description: Larry Flynt was a controversial American publisher and free-speech advocate best known as the founder of Hustler magazine.
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A.
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Hefner was an American magazine publisher and cultural figure best known as the founder of Playboy and its associated lifestyle brand.
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B.
Conrad Black
Conrad Black is a Canadian-born former media mogul, historian, and author best known for building a global newspaper empire and later being convicted of fraud in the United States.
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C.
Barry Diller
Barry Diller is an American media and internet executive known for building major entertainment and digital companies, including leading Fox’s early expansion and later chairing IAC.
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D.
Seymour Durst
Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
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E.
Charles Bobbit
Charles Bobbit was an American songwriter and longtime collaborator of James Brown, best known for co-writing the classic funk track "It's a Man's Man's Man's World."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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free speech activist ⓘ human ⓘ pornographer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| birthName |
Larry Flynt
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Larry Claxton Flynt Jr.
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| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| causeOfDisability | gunshot wounds from 1978 assassination attempt ⓘ |
| child |
Lisa Flynt
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Tonya Flynt ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-11-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-02-10 ⓘ |
| familyName | Flynt ⓘ |
| founded |
Hustler Club
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Hustler magazine ⓘ Larry Flynt Publications ⓘ |
| genre | adult magazine publishing ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| hasDisability | paraplegia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
defending First Amendment rights
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legal battles over obscenity ⓘ publishing explicit adult content ⓘ |
| militaryService |
United States Army
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United States Navy ⓘ |
| movement |
Free Speech Movement
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surface form:
free speech movement
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| notableCourtCase | Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hustler magazine
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surface form:
Hustler
Hustler magazine ⓘ Larry Flynt Publications ⓘ The People vs. Larry Flynt (producer credit association) ⓘ
surface form:
The People v. Larry Flynt
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| occupation |
businessperson
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editor ⓘ pornographer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| partyTo | Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lakeville, Kentucky, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| politicalAlignment | libertarianism ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Woody Harrelson ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Larry Flynt Publications
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publisher of Hustler magazine ⓘ |
| religion | raised in a Christian family ⓘ |
| residence |
Beverly Hills
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surface form:
Beverly Hills, California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse |
Althea Leasure
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Elizabeth Berrios NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathy Flynt ⓘ Mary Flynt ⓘ Peggy Flynt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
The People vs. Larry Flynt (producer credit association)
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surface form:
film "The People v. Larry Flynt"
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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: Larry Flynt Description of subject: Larry Flynt was a controversial American publisher and free-speech advocate best known as the founder of Hustler magazine.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Larry Claxton Flynt Jr.