Ralph Simpson
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Ralph Simpson is a former professional basketball guard best known for his high-scoring play in the American Basketball Association during the early 1970s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ralph Simpson canonical | 2 |
| Ralph Simpson Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1069401 — 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: Ralph Simpson Context triple: [Denver Nuggets (ABA), notablePlayer, Ralph Simpson]
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A.
Ralph Dawson
Ralph Dawson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early 20th century.
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B.
Ralph Noel
Ralph Noel was a British aristocrat and landowner of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Ernest Aldrich Simpson
Ernest Aldrich Simpson was a British-American shipping executive best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, whose relationship with King Edward VIII led to the 1936 abdication crisis.
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E.
William Rimmer
William Rimmer was a 19th-century British-born American artist, sculptor, and influential art teacher known for his anatomically precise and imaginative figure studies.
- 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: Ralph Simpson Target entity description: Ralph Simpson is a former professional basketball guard best known for his high-scoring play in the American Basketball Association during the early 1970s.
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A.
Ralph Dawson
Ralph Dawson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early 20th century.
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B.
Ralph Noel
Ralph Noel was a British aristocrat and landowner of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
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C.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Ernest Aldrich Simpson
Ernest Aldrich Simpson was a British-American shipping executive best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, whose relationship with King Edward VIII led to the 1936 abdication crisis.
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E.
William Rimmer
William Rimmer was a 19th-century British-born American artist, sculptor, and influential art teacher known for his anatomically precise and imaginative figure studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Ralph Simpson Description of subject: Ralph Simpson is a former professional basketball guard best known for his high-scoring play in the American Basketball Association during the early 1970s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ralph Simpson Jr.