Stephan Talty
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Stephan Talty is an American author and journalist known for his narrative nonfiction and co-authoring the book that inspired the film "Captain Phillips."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stephan Talty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749372 — 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: Stephan Talty Context triple: [Captain Phillips, basedOnAuthor, Stephan Talty]
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A.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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B.
Dennis Burkley
Dennis Burkley was an American character actor known for his burly appearance and roles in numerous film and television productions from the 1970s through the early 2000s.
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C.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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D.
Joe Gayton
Joe Gayton is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-creating the Western television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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E.
Steve Blass
Steve Blass is a former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher best known for his standout role in their 1971 World Series championship and his long tenure as a team broadcaster.
- 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: Stephan Talty Target entity description: Stephan Talty is an American author and journalist known for his narrative nonfiction and co-authoring the book that inspired the film "Captain Phillips."
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A.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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B.
Dennis Burkley
Dennis Burkley was an American character actor known for his burly appearance and roles in numerous film and television productions from the 1970s through the early 2000s.
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C.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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D.
Joe Gayton
Joe Gayton is an American screenwriter and producer best known for co-creating the Western television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
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E.
Steve Blass
Steve Blass is a former Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher best known for his standout role in their 1971 World Series championship and his long tenure as a team broadcaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkForFilm | A Captain’s Duty ⓘ |
| coAuthoredWith | Richard Phillips ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | A Captain’s Duty ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
ⓘ
nonfiction literature ⓘ |
| genre | narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
magazines
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newspapers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-authoring the book that inspired the film Captain Phillips ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Captain’s Duty
ⓘ
Agent Garbo ⓘ Empire of Blue Water ⓘ Escape from the Land of Snows ⓘ Mulatto America ⓘ Black Hand ⓘ
surface form:
The Black Hand
The Good Assassin ⓘ The Illustrious Dead ⓘ The Secret Agent ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ |
| workAdaptedAs |
Captain Phillips
ⓘ
surface form:
Captain Phillips (film)
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| writingStyle | narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
American history
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Tibetan history ⓘ World War II espionage ⓘ organized crime ⓘ piracy ⓘ |
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: Stephan Talty Description of subject: Stephan Talty is an American author and journalist known for his narrative nonfiction and co-authoring the book that inspired the film "Captain Phillips."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.