Stephen Douglas
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Stephen Douglas is an American artist and former actor best known as the ex-husband of actress Barbara Hershey.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Douglas canonical | 1 |
| Stephen Douglass | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10615758 — 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 Douglas Context triple: [Barbara Hershey, spouse, Stephen Douglas]
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A.
Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas was a prominent 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Illinois, best known for his role in shaping antebellum legislation and for debating Abraham Lincoln over slavery.
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James Tallmadge Jr.
James Tallmadge Jr. was a U.S. congressman from New York best known for proposing the Tallmadge Amendment in 1819, which sought to restrict the expansion of slavery into Missouri.
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C.
David Wilmot
David Wilmot is an Irish actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in productions such as "The Guard," "Ripper Street," and "Calvary."
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D.
Thomas Hicks
Thomas Hicks is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Henry Clay
Henry Clay was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and orator known as the “Great Compromiser” for brokering major legislative agreements that sought to balance sectional interests and preserve the Union.
- 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 Douglas Target entity description: Stephen Douglas is an American artist and former actor best known as the ex-husband of actress Barbara Hershey.
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A.
Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas was a prominent 19th-century American politician and U.S. senator from Illinois, best known for his role in shaping antebellum legislation and for debating Abraham Lincoln over slavery.
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B.
James Tallmadge Jr.
James Tallmadge Jr. was a U.S. congressman from New York best known for proposing the Tallmadge Amendment in 1819, which sought to restrict the expansion of slavery into Missouri.
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C.
David Wilmot
David Wilmot is an Irish actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including notable roles in productions such as "The Guard," "Ripper Street," and "Calvary."
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D.
Thomas Hicks
Thomas Hicks is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Henry Clay
Henry Clay was a prominent 19th-century American statesman and orator known as the “Great Compromiser” for brokering major legislative agreements that sought to balance sectional interests and preserve the Union.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Barbara Hershey ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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artist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Barbara Hershey ⓘ |
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 Douglas Description of subject: Stephen Douglas is an American artist and former actor best known as the ex-husband of actress Barbara Hershey.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stephen Douglas