Troy Bolton
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Troy Bolton is the charismatic basketball star and aspiring singer portrayed by Zac Efron in Disney’s High School Musical franchise.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Troy Bolton canonical | 15 |
| Troy Bolton (character) | 1 |
| Troy Bolton (fictional character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7672768 — 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: Troy Bolton Context triple: [High School Musical, notableCharacter, Troy Bolton]
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A.
Ryan Atwood
Ryan Atwood is the troubled yet principled teenager at the heart of the teen drama series "The O.C.," whose move from a rough background into an affluent Orange County family drives much of the show's emotional and social conflict.
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B.
Heath Barkley
Heath Barkley is a central character in the 1960s Western television series "The Big Valley," known as the tough, illegitimate son of the Barkley family who struggles for acceptance and justice.
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C.
Jonas Steele
Jonas Steele is the central fictional protagonist of the Civil War–era television miniseries "The Blue and the Gray," around whom much of the story’s personal and historical drama revolves.
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D.
Noah "Puck" Puckerman
Noah "Puck" Puckerman is a tough but ultimately soft-hearted high school jock and bad boy who becomes a key member of the glee club in the television series Glee.
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E.
Ben Wyatt
Ben Wyatt is a fiscally responsible, nerdy former state auditor who becomes Leslie Knope’s supportive husband and a key government official in the sitcom Parks and Recreation.
- 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: Troy Bolton Target entity description: Troy Bolton is the charismatic basketball star and aspiring singer portrayed by Zac Efron in Disney’s High School Musical franchise.
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A.
Ryan Atwood
Ryan Atwood is the troubled yet principled teenager at the heart of the teen drama series "The O.C.," whose move from a rough background into an affluent Orange County family drives much of the show's emotional and social conflict.
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B.
Heath Barkley
Heath Barkley is a central character in the 1960s Western television series "The Big Valley," known as the tough, illegitimate son of the Barkley family who struggles for acceptance and justice.
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C.
Jonas Steele
Jonas Steele is the central fictional protagonist of the Civil War–era television miniseries "The Blue and the Gray," around whom much of the story’s personal and historical drama revolves.
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D.
Noah "Puck" Puckerman
Noah "Puck" Puckerman is a tough but ultimately soft-hearted high school jock and bad boy who becomes a key member of the glee club in the television series Glee.
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E.
Ben Wyatt
Ben Wyatt is a fiscally responsible, nerdy former state auditor who becomes Leslie Knope’s supportive husband and a key government official in the sitcom Parks and Recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Troy Bolton Description of subject: Troy Bolton is the charismatic basketball star and aspiring singer portrayed by Zac Efron in Disney’s High School Musical franchise.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Troy Bolton
subject linked to:
East High School
subject linked to:
High School Musical 2 (2007 film)
linked to: Troy Bolton