Bolden
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Bolden is a surname most prominently associated with Charles F. Bolden Jr., a former NASA astronaut and Administrator of NASA.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bolden canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9808858 — 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: Bolden Context triple: [Charles F. Bolden Jr., familyName, Bolden]
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A.
Gombauld
Gombauld is a modernist painter and one of the central, satirically portrayed guests at the country-house gathering in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow."
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B.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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C.
Shriever
Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
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D.
Moneague
Moneague is a rural village in Jamaica known for its karst landscape, seasonal lake, and location along the main road through Saint Ann Parish.
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E.
Fadden
Fadden is an Australian federal electoral division in Queensland, represented in the House of Representatives.
- 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: Bolden Target entity description: Bolden is a surname most prominently associated with Charles F. Bolden Jr., a former NASA astronaut and Administrator of NASA.
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A.
Gombauld
Gombauld is a modernist painter and one of the central, satirically portrayed guests at the country-house gathering in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow."
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B.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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C.
Shriever
Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
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D.
Moneague
Moneague is a rural village in Jamaica known for its karst landscape, seasonal lake, and location along the main road through Saint Ann Parish.
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E.
Fadden
Fadden is an Australian federal electoral division in Queensland, represented in the House of Representatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| canBeUsedAs | fictional character surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
occupational or locational surnames ⓘ patronymic surnames ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRelation |
Baldon
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Boldon ⓘ Bouldon ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | gender-neutral surname ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociation |
NASA through Charles F. Bolden Jr.
ⓘ
early jazz music through Buddy Bolden ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Buddy Bolden
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Charles F. Bolden Jr. ⓘ Herbert Bolden ⓘ James Bolden ⓘ Mark Bolden ⓘ Michael Bolden ⓘ |
| hasPluralForm | Boldens ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Baldwin
ⓘ
Boulden ⓘ |
| isWrittenInScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedAs |
family name in English‑speaking countries
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family name in the United Kingdom ⓘ family name in the United States ⓘ |
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: Bolden Description of subject: Bolden is a surname most prominently associated with Charles F. Bolden Jr., a former NASA astronaut and Administrator of NASA.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.