Elijah Bond
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Elijah Bond was a 19th-century American lawyer and inventor best known for patenting the Ouija board.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elijah Bond canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8617978 — 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: Elijah Bond Context triple: [Green Mount Cemetery, hasBurial, Elijah Bond]
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A.
Elijah Hoole
Elijah Hoole was a British architect best known for his socially minded late-19th-century designs, including influential settlement buildings in London.
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B.
Elijah Kelley
Elijah Kelley is an American actor, singer, and dancer known for his energetic performances in film, television, and musical productions such as "Hairspray" and various live TV musicals.
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C.
Elijah Hewson
Elijah Hewson is an Irish singer and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band Inhaler and the son of U2’s lead vocalist Bono.
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D.
Elijah de Vidas
Elijah de Vidas was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi of the Safed Kabbalistic circle, best known for his influential ethical-kabbalistic work "Reshit Chochmah."
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E.
Elijah Price
Elijah Price is a highly intelligent but physically fragile comic-book art dealer who becomes the mastermind villain "Mr. Glass" in M. Night Shyamalan's film *Unbreakable*.
- 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: Elijah Bond Target entity description: Elijah Bond was a 19th-century American lawyer and inventor best known for patenting the Ouija board.
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A.
Elijah Hoole
Elijah Hoole was a British architect best known for his socially minded late-19th-century designs, including influential settlement buildings in London.
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B.
Elijah Kelley
Elijah Kelley is an American actor, singer, and dancer known for his energetic performances in film, television, and musical productions such as "Hairspray" and various live TV musicals.
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C.
Elijah Hewson
Elijah Hewson is an Irish singer and guitarist best known as the frontman of the rock band Inhaler and the son of U2’s lead vocalist Bono.
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D.
Elijah de Vidas
Elijah de Vidas was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi of the Safed Kabbalistic circle, best known for his influential ethical-kabbalistic work "Reshit Chochmah."
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E.
Elijah Price
Elijah Price is a highly intelligent but physically fragile comic-book art dealer who becomes the mastermind villain "Mr. Glass" in M. Night Shyamalan's film *Unbreakable*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
paranormal culture
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spiritualism ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
patents
ⓘ
spirit communication devices ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Bond ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Elijah ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasNameInEnglish | Elijah Bond ⓘ |
| hasNotability |
historical figure in occult popular culture
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key figure in history of Ouija board ⓘ |
| hasPatentOn | Ouija board ⓘ |
| influenced | commercial spirit boards industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | patenting the Ouija board ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing talking board concept through patent ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ouija board ⓘ |
| occupation |
inventor
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Elijah Bond Description of subject: Elijah Bond was a 19th-century American lawyer and inventor best known for patenting the Ouija board.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.