Stephen
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Stephen is a central character in Terrence McNally’s play *The Lisbon Traviata*, a darkly comic drama about obsession, relationships, and opera fandom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10252829 — 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: Stephen Context triple: [The Lisbon Traviata, featuresCharacter, Stephen]
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A.
Stephen
Stephen is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "crown" or "garland," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Stephen
Stephen is the formal given name of Steve Wozniak, the American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
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C.
Stephen
Stephen was the birth name of Pope Stephen II, a 8th-century pontiff who played a key role in forging the alliance between the papacy and the Frankish kingdom.
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D.
Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen G. Breyer, an American jurist and former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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E.
Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen R. Covey, the influential American educator, author, and leadership expert best known for writing "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
- 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: Stephen Target entity description: Stephen is a central character in Terrence McNally’s play *The Lisbon Traviata*, a darkly comic drama about obsession, relationships, and opera fandom.
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A.
Stephen
Stephen is a pivotal supporting character in Quentin Tarantino's film "Django Unchained," portrayed as the fiercely loyal and manipulative house slave of plantation owner Calvin Candie.
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B.
Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Stills, the American singer-songwriter and musician known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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C.
Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Strasburg, an American professional baseball pitcher known for his career with the Washington Nationals.
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D.
Stephen
Stephen is the given name of American novelist, screenwriter, and film director Stephen Chbosky, best known for writing "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
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E.
Stephen
Stephen is the given first name of the iconic American actor and filmmaker Steve McQueen, known as the "King of Cool."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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theatre character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Lisbon Traviata ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | LGBT theatre ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Maria Callas
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opera ⓘ |
| conflictType |
psychological conflict
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romantic conflict ⓘ |
| createdBy | Terrence McNally ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| fandom |
Maria Callas recordings
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opera recordings ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceOfWork | 1985 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
dark comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith | Mike ⓘ |
| hasSexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
emotionally volatile
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neurotic ⓘ obsessive ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| nationalityInText | American ⓘ |
| occupation | editor ⓘ |
| relationshipType | romantic partner ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| themeOfWork |
obsession
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opera fandom ⓘ relationships ⓘ |
| toneAroundCharacter |
darkly comic
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tragicomic ⓘ |
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: Stephen Description of subject: Stephen is a central character in Terrence McNally’s play *The Lisbon Traviata*, a darkly comic drama about obsession, relationships, and opera fandom.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.