James Ramseur
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James Ramseur was one of the four teenagers shot and wounded by Bernhard Goetz in the highly publicized 1984 New York City subway shooting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Ramseur canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9971855 — 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: James Ramseur Context triple: [Bernhard Goetz, involvedWith, James Ramseur]
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A.
Daniel Roberdeau
Daniel Roberdeau was an American Revolutionary War general and Continental Congress delegate from Pennsylvania who played a key role in organizing colonial defenses and supporting the patriot cause.
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B.
Mitch Rouse
Mitch Rouse is an American actor, comedian, and writer known for his work in film and television, including co-creating the series "Strangers with Candy" and appearing in numerous comedic roles.
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C.
Michael LeSieur
Michael LeSieur is an American screenwriter known for his work on comedy films, including co-writing the 2018 animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss's "The Grinch."
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D.
Brian Routh
Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
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E.
Jeff Gourson
Jeff Gourson is a film editor known for his work on movies such as the comedy "White Chicks."
- 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: James Ramseur Target entity description: James Ramseur was one of the four teenagers shot and wounded by Bernhard Goetz in the highly publicized 1984 New York City subway shooting.
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A.
Daniel Roberdeau
Daniel Roberdeau was an American Revolutionary War general and Continental Congress delegate from Pennsylvania who played a key role in organizing colonial defenses and supporting the patriot cause.
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B.
Mitch Rouse
Mitch Rouse is an American actor, comedian, and writer known for his work in film and television, including co-creating the series "Strangers with Candy" and appearing in numerous comedic roles.
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C.
Michael LeSieur
Michael LeSieur is an American screenwriter known for his work on comedy films, including co-writing the 2018 animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss's "The Grinch."
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D.
Brian Routh
Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
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E.
Jeff Gourson
Jeff Gourson is a film editor known for his work on movies such as the comedy "White Chicks."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
shooting victim ⓘ |
| ageAtTimeOfShooting | teenager ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Barry Allen
ⓘ
Darrell Cabey ⓘ
linked to:
Darryl Cabey
Troy Canty ⓘ |
| cityOfResidenceAtTimeOfIncident | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfEvent | 1984-12-22 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| event | 1984 New York City subway shooting ⓘ |
| historicalContext | 1980s New York City crime debates ⓘ |
| injurySustained | gunshot wound ⓘ |
| legalCaseRelatedTo | People v. Goetz ⓘ |
| locationOfEvent |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City Subway ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage | highly publicized case ⓘ |
| name | James Ramseur ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of four teenagers shot by Bernhard Goetz ⓘ |
| numberOfPeopleShotInIncident | 4 ⓘ |
| partOf | group of four teenagers in Goetz subway incident ⓘ |
| perpetratorOfShooting | Bernhard Goetz ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| roleInIncident | alleged attempted robber ⓘ |
| victimOf |
Bernhard Goetz subway shooting
ⓘ
linked to:
1984 New York City subway shooting
|
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: James Ramseur Description of subject: James Ramseur was one of the four teenagers shot and wounded by Bernhard Goetz in the highly publicized 1984 New York City subway shooting.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.