Lester Neil Smith III
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Lester Neil Smith III, better known as L. Neil Smith, was an American science fiction author and libertarian activist noted for his libertarian-themed alternate history and space opera novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lester Neil Smith III canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6910221 — 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: Lester Neil Smith III Context triple: [L. Neil Smith, fullName, Lester Neil Smith III]
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A.
Lester Don Holt Jr.
Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American television journalist best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News and a prominent figure in broadcast news.
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B.
Joseph Lee Smith
Joseph Lee Smith was an American military officer and the father of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
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C.
Joe Smith Jr.
Joe Smith Jr. is an American professional boxer known for his upset victories over several former world champions and for his power-punching style in the light heavyweight division.
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D.
Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith was an influential American jazz organist whose innovative Hammond B-3 playing helped popularize soul jazz in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
- 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: Lester Neil Smith III Target entity description: Lester Neil Smith III, better known as L. Neil Smith, was an American science fiction author and libertarian activist noted for his libertarian-themed alternate history and space opera novels.
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A.
Lester Don Holt Jr.
Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American television journalist best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News and a prominent figure in broadcast news.
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B.
Joseph Lee Smith
Joseph Lee Smith was an American military officer and the father of Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith.
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C.
Joe Smith Jr.
Joe Smith Jr. is an American professional boxer known for his upset victories over several former world champions and for his power-punching style in the light heavyweight division.
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D.
Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith was an influential American jazz organist whose innovative Hammond B-3 playing helped popularize soul jazz in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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human ⓘ libertarian activist ⓘ novelist ⓘ science fiction author ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | L. Neil Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Prometheus Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1946-05-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Denver, Colorado, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2021-08-27 ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
libertarian science fiction
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political commentary ⓘ |
| genre |
alternate history
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science fiction ⓘ space opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Rylla Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
gun rights advocacy
ⓘ
minarchism ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Robert A. Heinlein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | libertarianism ⓘ |
| name | Lester Neil Smith III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSeries | The Probability Broach series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Forge of the Elders
NERFINISHED
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Lever Action NERFINISHED ⓘ Pallas NERFINISHED ⓘ Roswell, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crystal Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gallatin Divergence NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mitzvah NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nagasaki Vector NERFINISHED ⓘ The Probability Broach NERFINISHED ⓘ The Venus Belt NERFINISHED ⓘ Their Majesties’ Bucketeers NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Paine Maru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
political activist
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writer ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | libertarian ⓘ |
| residence | Fort Collins, Colorado, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Cathy Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://lneilsmith.org/ ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
gun rights
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individual liberty ⓘ limited government ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lester Neil Smith III Description of subject: Lester Neil Smith III, better known as L. Neil Smith, was an American science fiction author and libertarian activist noted for his libertarian-themed alternate history and space opera novels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.