Richard Dodson
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Richard Dodson is a New Zealand sailor best known for winning a gold medal in the Soling class at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and later competing as a Paralympic sailor after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Dodson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9560658 — 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: Richard Dodson Context triple: [Dodson, usedBy, Richard Dodson]
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A.
Dan Dodson
Dan Dodson is an individual whose specific public role or notability is unclear from the given information.
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B.
Neal Dodson
Neal Dodson is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and genre films, frequently collaborating with director J.C. Chandor.
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C.
Joseph Dodson
Joseph Dodson was a 19th-century New Zealand businessman and politician, known primarily as a brewer and early mayor of Nelson.
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D.
Arthur Dunn
Arthur Dunn was an English educator and former footballer best known for establishing the prestigious preparatory institution Ludgrove School.
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E.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
- 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: Richard Dodson Target entity description: Richard Dodson is a New Zealand sailor best known for winning a gold medal in the Soling class at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and later competing as a Paralympic sailor after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
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A.
Dan Dodson
Dan Dodson is an individual whose specific public role or notability is unclear from the given information.
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B.
Neal Dodson
Neal Dodson is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and genre films, frequently collaborating with director J.C. Chandor.
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C.
Joseph Dodson
Joseph Dodson was a 19th-century New Zealand businessman and politician, known primarily as a brewer and early mayor of Nelson.
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D.
Arthur Dunn
Arthur Dunn was an English educator and former footballer best known for establishing the prestigious preparatory institution Ludgrove School.
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E.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Zealander
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Olympic sailor ⓘ Paralympic sailor ⓘ human ⓘ sailor ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1990s
ⓘ
2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
| competedWith |
Andrew May
ⓘ
Chris Sharp ⓘ |
| competesIn |
Paralympic sailing
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Soling ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Oceania ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| diagnosis | multiple sclerosis ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasDisability | visual impairment due to multiple sclerosis ⓘ |
| hasRole |
crew member
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helmsman ⓘ |
| hasWonTitle | Olympic champion in sailing ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
competing as a Paralympic sailor
ⓘ
winning Olympic gold medal in Soling ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | multiple sclerosis ⓘ |
| memberOf |
New Zealand Paralympic sailing team
ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand Paralympic teams
|
| nationality | New Zealander ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Olympic gold medal in Soling at Atlanta 1996
ⓘ
representing New Zealand in Paralympic sailing ⓘ |
| occupation | sailor ⓘ |
| OlympicCity | Atlanta ⓘ |
| OlympicEvent | Soling ⓘ |
| OlympicGames | 1996 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| ParalympicCity | Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
| ParalympicEvent | Sonar ⓘ |
| ParalympicGames | 2016 Summer Paralympics ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
America's Cup campaigns
ⓘ
World Sailing Championships ⓘ |
| representedCountry |
New Zealand at the Olympics
ⓘ
New Zealand at the Paralympics ⓘ
linked to:
New Zealand Paralympic teams
|
| sailingClass |
Soling
ⓘ
Sonar ⓘ |
| sport | sailing ⓘ |
| teamEvent | Soling three-person keelboat ⓘ |
| wonMedal | gold medal ⓘ |
| wonMedalAt | 1996 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
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: Richard Dodson Description of subject: Richard Dodson is a New Zealand sailor best known for winning a gold medal in the Soling class at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and later competing as a Paralympic sailor after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.