Larry Risley
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Larry Risley was an American airline entrepreneur best known as the founder of regional carrier Mesa Airlines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Risley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6618534 — 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 Risley Context triple: [Mesa Airlines, foundedBy, Larry Risley]
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A.
Jay L. McClelland
Jay L. McClelland is a cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist best known for his pioneering work in connectionist models of cognition and co-developing the influential Parallel Distributed Processing framework.
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B.
John C. Wells
John C. Wells is a prominent British phonetician and phonologist known for his influential work on English accents and pronunciation, including his analyses of BBC English.
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C.
Ronald Lippitt
Ronald Lippitt was an American social psychologist known for his work on group dynamics, leadership styles, and planned change, building on the foundational theories of Kurt Lewin.
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D.
Timothy Carhart
Timothy Carhart is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in films and television series such as "Thelma & Louise," "Witness," and various crime and drama shows.
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E.
Richard T. Jones
Richard T. Jones is an American actor known for his roles in film and television, including prominent performances in dramas and thrillers.
- 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 Risley Target entity description: Larry Risley was an American airline entrepreneur best known as the founder of regional carrier Mesa Airlines.
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A.
Jay L. McClelland
Jay L. McClelland is a cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist best known for his pioneering work in connectionist models of cognition and co-developing the influential Parallel Distributed Processing framework.
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B.
John C. Wells
John C. Wells is a prominent British phonetician and phonologist known for his influential work on English accents and pronunciation, including his analyses of BBC English.
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C.
Ronald Lippitt
Ronald Lippitt was an American social psychologist known for his work on group dynamics, leadership styles, and planned change, building on the foundational theories of Kurt Lewin.
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D.
Timothy Carhart
Timothy Carhart is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in films and television series such as "Thelma & Louise," "Witness," and various crime and drama shows.
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E.
Richard T. Jones
Richard T. Jones is an American actor known for his roles in film and television, including prominent performances in dramas and thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airline entrepreneur
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human ⓘ regional airline ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
airline management
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regional air transportation ⓘ |
| founded | Mesa Airlines ⓘ |
| founder | Larry Risley ⓘ |
| hasRole |
airline owner
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founder of Mesa Airlines ⓘ |
| industry |
airline industry
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airline industry ⓘ aviation industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding Mesa Airlines ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | developing a regional carrier business model in the U.S. ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mesa Airlines ⓘ |
| occupation |
airline executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
American regional airline market
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United States of America ⓘ |
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 Risley Description of subject: Larry Risley was an American airline entrepreneur best known as the founder of regional carrier Mesa Airlines.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.