Ken Miles
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Ken Miles was a British-born racing driver and engineer best known for his pivotal role in Ford’s 1960s Le Mans program and his portrayal in the film "Ford v Ferrari."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ken Miles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1790820 — 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: Ken Miles Context triple: [Ford v Ferrari, mainCharacter, Ken Miles]
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A.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist best known for co-founding Netscape and Silicon Graphics, playing a pivotal role in the early commercial development of the internet and computer graphics.
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B.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark was a British film editor renowned for his work on numerous acclaimed movies across several decades, including major Hollywood and British productions.
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C.
Sir Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Moss was a legendary British racing driver, widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers never to win a World Championship.
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D.
Sir Jackie Stewart
Sir Jackie Stewart is a legendary Scottish Formula One racing driver and three-time World Drivers' Champion, renowned both for his on-track success and his pioneering work on motorsport safety.
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E.
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby was a legendary American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur best known for creating high-performance cars like the Shelby Cobra and collaborating with Ford on the GT40 program.
- 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: Ken Miles Target entity description: Ken Miles was a British-born racing driver and engineer best known for his pivotal role in Ford’s 1960s Le Mans program and his portrayal in the film "Ford v Ferrari."
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A.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist best known for co-founding Netscape and Silicon Graphics, playing a pivotal role in the early commercial development of the internet and computer graphics.
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B.
Jim Clark
Jim Clark was a British film editor renowned for his work on numerous acclaimed movies across several decades, including major Hollywood and British productions.
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C.
Sir Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Moss was a legendary British racing driver, widely regarded as one of the greatest Formula One drivers never to win a World Championship.
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D.
Sir Jackie Stewart
Sir Jackie Stewart is a legendary Scottish Formula One racing driver and three-time World Drivers' Champion, renowned both for his on-track success and his pioneering work on motorsport safety.
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E.
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby was a legendary American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur best known for creating high-performance cars like the Shelby Cobra and collaborating with Ford on the GT40 program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
automotive engineer
ⓘ
human ⓘ racing driver ⓘ test driver ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Ford v Ferrari
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surface form:
film "Ford v Ferrari"
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| birthCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1918-11-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Sutton Coldfield
ⓘ
surface form:
Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England
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| carNumber |
Ford GT40
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surface form:
Ford GT40 Mk II #1 (1966 Le Mans)
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| causeOfDeath | racing accident ⓘ |
| child | Peter Miles ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Carroll Shelby
ⓘ
Ford Motor Company ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War II ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1966-08-17 ⓘ |
| designed | modifications for Shelby Cobra race cars ⓘ |
| employer | Shelby American ⓘ |
| era | 1960s motorsport ⓘ |
| familyName | Miles ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
automotive engineering
ⓘ
motorsport ⓘ |
| fullName | Kenneth Henry Miles ⓘ |
| givenName | Kenneth ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers ⓘ |
| militaryService | British Army ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
1966 24 Hours of Le Mans performance
ⓘ
portrayal in the film "Ford v Ferrari" ⓘ role in Ford’s 1960s Le Mans program ⓘ testing and development of the Ford GT40 ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
ⓘ
racing driver ⓘ test driver ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
24 Hours of Le Mans
ⓘ
24 Hours of Daytona ⓘ
surface form:
Daytona 24 Hours
12 Hours of Sebring ⓘ
surface form:
Sebring 12 Hours
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| placeOfDeath | Riverside International Raceway, California, United States ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Christian Bale ⓘ |
| racingDiscipline |
endurance racing
ⓘ
sports car racing ⓘ |
| relocatedTo |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Mollie Miles ⓘ |
| team |
Shelby American
ⓘ
surface form:
Shelby American racing team
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| workedOn |
Ford GT40
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surface form:
Ford GT40 Mk II
Ford GT40 development program ⓘ Shelby Cobra development ⓘ |
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: Ken Miles Description of subject: Ken Miles was a British-born racing driver and engineer best known for his pivotal role in Ford’s 1960s Le Mans program and his portrayal in the film "Ford v Ferrari."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.