Ted Bundy
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Ted Bundy was an infamous American serial killer active in the 1970s, known for his charm, intelligence, and brutal murders of numerous young women across multiple states.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ted Bundy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6140093 — 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: Ted Bundy Context triple: [Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb), inspiredBy, Ted Bundy]
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A.
Francis Dolarhyde
Francis Dolarhyde is the fictional serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy" in Thomas Harris's novel *Red Dragon* and its screen adaptations.
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B.
Albert DeSalvo
Albert DeSalvo was an American criminal who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler," a notorious serial killer linked to a series of murders in the Boston area during the early 1960s.
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C.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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D.
Richard Fish
Richard Fish is a quirky, money-driven yet oddly principled lawyer and partner at the Cage & Fish law firm on the television series "Ally McBeal."
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E.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
- 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: Ted Bundy Target entity description: Ted Bundy was an infamous American serial killer active in the 1970s, known for his charm, intelligence, and brutal murders of numerous young women across multiple states.
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A.
Francis Dolarhyde
Francis Dolarhyde is the fictional serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy" in Thomas Harris's novel *Red Dragon* and its screen adaptations.
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B.
Albert DeSalvo
Albert DeSalvo was an American criminal who confessed to being the "Boston Strangler," a notorious serial killer linked to a series of murders in the Boston area during the early 1960s.
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C.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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D.
Richard Fish
Richard Fish is a quirky, money-driven yet oddly principled lawyer and partner at the Cage & Fish law firm on the television series "Ally McBeal."
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E.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American criminal
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human ⓘ serial killer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1978 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1974 ⓘ |
| capturedOn | 1978-02-15 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution by electric chair ⓘ |
| child | Rose Bundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
aggravated assault
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attempted murder ⓘ burglary ⓘ kidnapping ⓘ murder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-11-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-01-24 ⓘ |
| education |
University of Puget Sound
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| escapeFrom |
Garfield County Jail, Colorado
NERFINISHED
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Pitkin County Courthouse, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executedBy | State of Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Theodore Robert Bundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Theodore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldAt | Florida State Prison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
escaping from custody
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manipulative charm and intelligence ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | capital punishment ⓘ |
| mother | Eleanor Louise Cowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | serial murders of young women in the 1970s ⓘ |
| numberOfVictims | 30+ ⓘ |
| occupation |
crisis hotline volunteer
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law student ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Colorado
NERFINISHED
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Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partner | Elizabeth Kloepfer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Burlington, Vermont, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Starke, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Zac Efron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sentencedTo | death ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Carole Ann Boone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stepfather | Johnny Culpepper Bundy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Stranger Beside Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| victimProfile | young women ⓘ |
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: Ted Bundy Description of subject: Ted Bundy was an infamous American serial killer active in the 1970s, known for his charm, intelligence, and brutal murders of numerous young women across multiple states.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.