Bill Blackburn
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Bill Blackburn was an American actor and stand-in best known for his recurring background roles and work as a stand-in on the original Star Trek television series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bill Blackburn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4484730 — 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)
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Target entity: Bill Blackburn Context triple: [The Corbomite Maneuver, guestStar, Bill Blackburn]
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A.
Alan Black
Alan Black is a Northern Irish man known for being the sole survivor of the 1976 Kingsmill massacre during the Troubles.
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B.
Paul Blackburn
Paul Blackburn was an American poet and translator associated with mid-20th-century avant-garde movements, noted for his innovative verse and support of contemporary poetry through readings and recordings.
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C.
Neil Black
Neil Black was a distinguished British oboist renowned for his solo performances, chamber music collaborations, and influential recordings in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Eric Bishop
Eric Bishop is the troubled Manchester postman and devoted Manchester United fan who serves as the central protagonist in Ken Loach’s film "Looking for Eric."
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E.
James Black
James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
- 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: Bill Blackburn Target entity description: Bill Blackburn was an American actor and stand-in best known for his recurring background roles and work as a stand-in on the original Star Trek television series.
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A.
Alan Black
Alan Black is a Northern Irish man known for being the sole survivor of the 1976 Kingsmill massacre during the Troubles.
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B.
Paul Blackburn
Paul Blackburn was an American poet and translator associated with mid-20th-century avant-garde movements, noted for his innovative verse and support of contemporary poetry through readings and recordings.
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C.
Neil Black
Neil Black was a distinguished British oboist renowned for his solo performances, chamber music collaborations, and influential recordings in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Eric Bishop
Eric Bishop is the troubled Manchester postman and devoted Manchester United fan who serves as the central protagonist in Ken Loach’s film "Looking for Eric."
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E.
James Black
James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stand-in ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century American television ⓘ |
| appearedIn | Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employedAs | stand-in for principal cast on Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| fandomSubject |
Star Trek fandom
ⓘ
linked to:
Trekkies
|
| fieldOfWork |
science fiction television acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| hasRole |
background extra
ⓘ
stand-in double ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaArticle | Bill Blackburn ⓘ |
| knownFor |
recurring background roles on Star Trek: The Original Series
ⓘ
stand-in work on Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | background performer in Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| notableFor | behind-the-scenes contributions to Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| notableWork | Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
stand-in ⓘ |
| partOf |
Star Trek franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek
|
| portrayedIn | Star Trek production credits ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn | Star Trek: The Original Series ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Bill Blackburn Description of subject: Bill Blackburn was an American actor and stand-in best known for his recurring background roles and work as a stand-in on the original Star Trek television series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Star Trek (original series episode "The Corbomite Maneuver")