Charles Stone III
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Charles Stone III is an American film and music video director known for works like the feature film "Drumline" and the iconic Budweiser "Whassup?" commercials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Stone III canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3120706 — 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: Charles Stone III Context triple: [The Seed (2.0), musicVideoDirector, Charles Stone III]
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A.
Anson Jones
Anson Jones was an American physician, politician, and statesman best known for overseeing the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States.
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B.
Archibald Roane
Archibald Roane was an early American politician and jurist who served as the second governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century.
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C.
James Hicks Stone
James Hicks Stone was the brother of prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone and a member of the Stone family noted for its contributions to architecture and the arts.
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D.
Randall Woodfin
Randall Woodfin is an American politician and attorney who serves as the progressive, reform-focused mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
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E.
Charles McEvers Jr.
Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
- 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: Charles Stone III Target entity description: Charles Stone III is an American film and music video director known for works like the feature film "Drumline" and the iconic Budweiser "Whassup?" commercials.
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A.
Anson Jones
Anson Jones was an American physician, politician, and statesman best known for overseeing the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States.
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B.
Archibald Roane
Archibald Roane was an early American politician and jurist who served as the second governor of Tennessee in the early 19th century.
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C.
James Hicks Stone
James Hicks Stone was the brother of prominent American architect Edward Durell Stone and a member of the Stone family noted for its contributions to architecture and the arts.
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D.
Randall Woodfin
Randall Woodfin is an American politician and attorney who serves as the progressive, reform-focused mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
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E.
Charles McEvers Jr.
Charles McEvers Jr. was an early American financier and broker who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
advertising director
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ music video director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
CrazySexyCool
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surface form:
CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story
Drumline ⓘ Lila & Eve ⓘ Mr. 3000 ⓘ Paid in Full (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Paid in Full
Uncle Drew ⓘ Whassup? (Budweiser commercials) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
advertising
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cinema ⓘ music videos ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ sports film ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Bernie Mac
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Kyrie Irving ⓘ Nick Cannon ⓘ Omar Epps ⓘ Queen Latifah ⓘ TLC ⓘ Viola Davis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Charles Stone III self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating the Budweiser Whassup? advertising campaign
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directing the film Drumline ⓘ |
| notableWork |
CrazySexyCool
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surface form:
CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story
Drumline ⓘ Lila & Eve ⓘ Mr. 3000 ⓘ Paid in Full (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Paid in Full
Uncle Drew ⓘ Whassup? (Budweiser commercials) ⓘ |
| occupation |
advertising director
ⓘ
film director ⓘ music video director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
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: Charles Stone III Description of subject: Charles Stone III is an American film and music video director known for works like the feature film "Drumline" and the iconic Budweiser "Whassup?" commercials.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Seed (2.0)