Charles Alden Black
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Charles Alden Black was an American naval officer and business executive best known as the second husband of former child star Shirley Temple.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Alden Black canonical | 5 |
| Charles Alden Black Jr. | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4945734 — 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: Charles Alden Black Context triple: [Shirley Temple, spouse, Charles Alden Black]
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A.
John F. Black
John F. Black is a comic supporting character in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Comedy of Terrors," contributing to the movie’s farcical and macabre tone.
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B.
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1916 to 1922.
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C.
C. Leonard Wilson
C. Leonard Wilson was an early American mountaineer known for participating in the first ascent of North Palisade in California’s Sierra Nevada.
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D.
Arthur B. McBride
Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
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E.
Ernest E. Williams
Ernest E. Williams was a zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential research on reptiles and amphibians, particularly lizards, and for his long tenure at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- 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: Charles Alden Black Target entity description: Charles Alden Black was an American naval officer and business executive best known as the second husband of former child star Shirley Temple.
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A.
John F. Black
John F. Black is a comic supporting character in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Comedy of Terrors," contributing to the movie’s farcical and macabre tone.
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B.
John Hessin Clarke
John Hessin Clarke was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who served on the Court from 1916 to 1922.
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C.
C. Leonard Wilson
C. Leonard Wilson was an early American mountaineer known for participating in the first ascent of North Palisade in California’s Sierra Nevada.
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D.
Arthur B. McBride
Arthur B. McBride was an American businessman best known for establishing and initially owning the Cleveland Browns professional football franchise.
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E.
Ernest E. Williams
Ernest E. Williams was a zoologist and herpetologist known for his influential research on reptiles and amphibians, particularly lizards, and for his long tenure at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Charles Alden Black Description of subject: Charles Alden Black was an American naval officer and business executive best known as the second husband of former child star Shirley Temple.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Charles Alden Black
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