Bill Richard
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Bill Richard is the father of Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and has since been involved in public remembrance and community efforts honoring his son.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Richard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3906862 — 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: Bill Richard Context triple: [Martin Richard, hasFather, Bill Richard]
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A.
Jim Lewis
Jim Lewis is a writer best known for his extensive work on Muppet-related projects, contributing scripts and material for various films, shows, and attractions.
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B.
Mark Irwin
Mark Irwin is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on numerous feature films, including collaborations with directors like David Cronenberg and on popular comedies such as "Old School."
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C.
Dave Bickler
Dave Bickler is an American rock singer best known as the original lead vocalist of the band Survivor and for singing their hit song "Eye of the Tiger."
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D.
Steve Hubbell
Steve Hubbell is a minor character in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," depicted as a working-class neighbor and poker buddy of Stanley Kowalski.
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E.
David Iserson
David Iserson is an American television writer and screenwriter known for his work on series like "Saturday Night Live," "New Girl," and "Mad Men," as well as for authoring the young adult novel "Firecracker."
- 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: Bill Richard Target entity description: Bill Richard is the father of Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and has since been involved in public remembrance and community efforts honoring his son.
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A.
Jim Lewis
Jim Lewis is a writer best known for his extensive work on Muppet-related projects, contributing scripts and material for various films, shows, and attractions.
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B.
Mark Irwin
Mark Irwin is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on numerous feature films, including collaborations with directors like David Cronenberg and on popular comedies such as "Old School."
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C.
Dave Bickler
Dave Bickler is an American rock singer best known as the original lead vocalist of the band Survivor and for singing their hit song "Eye of the Tiger."
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D.
Steve Hubbell
Steve Hubbell is a minor character in Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," depicted as a working-class neighbor and poker buddy of Stanley Kowalski.
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E.
David Iserson
David Iserson is an American television writer and screenwriter known for his work on series like "Saturday Night Live," "New Girl," and "Mad Men," as well as for authoring the young adult novel "Firecracker."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activity |
community engagement in Boston
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public speaking related to his son’s memory ⓘ |
| causeSupported |
peace and community unity in memory of Martin Richard
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public remembrance of victims of the Boston Marathon bombing ⓘ |
| child | Martin Richard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| eventConnectedTo | 2013 Boston Marathon bombing ⓘ |
| hasRole | parent of a bombing victim ⓘ |
| knownFor |
community efforts honoring Martin Richard
ⓘ
public remembrance efforts for his son Martin Richard ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the father of Martin Richard
ⓘ
his connection to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing ⓘ |
| relative | Martin Richard ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Bill Richard Description of subject: Bill Richard is the father of Martin Richard, the youngest victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and has since been involved in public remembrance and community efforts honoring his son.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.