Ralph Angel Bordelon
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Ralph Angel Bordelon is a central character in the television drama "Queen Sugar," portrayed as a struggling but devoted single father working to rebuild his life and family legacy on a Louisiana sugarcane farm.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ralph Angel Bordelon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8430989 — 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: Ralph Angel Bordelon Context triple: [Queen Sugar, mainCharacter, Ralph Angel Bordelon]
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A.
Charley Bordelon
Charley Bordelon is a driven, savvy businesswoman and single mother who returns to rural Louisiana to manage her family's sugarcane farm in the television drama "Queen Sugar."
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B.
Nova Bordelon
Nova Bordelon is a central character in the television drama "Queen Sugar," known as a fiercely independent journalist and activist navigating complex family and social issues in rural Louisiana.
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C.
Buddy Bragg
Buddy Bragg is a charming, wisecracking bank robber and loyal partner-in-crime to Jack Foley in the crime film "Out of Sight."
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D.
Swan Burnett
Swan Burnett was an American physician best known as the husband of British-American novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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E.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
- 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: Ralph Angel Bordelon Target entity description: Ralph Angel Bordelon is a central character in the television drama "Queen Sugar," portrayed as a struggling but devoted single father working to rebuild his life and family legacy on a Louisiana sugarcane farm.
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A.
Charley Bordelon
Charley Bordelon is a driven, savvy businesswoman and single mother who returns to rural Louisiana to manage her family's sugarcane farm in the television drama "Queen Sugar."
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B.
Nova Bordelon
Nova Bordelon is a central character in the television drama "Queen Sugar," known as a fiercely independent journalist and activist navigating complex family and social issues in rural Louisiana.
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C.
Buddy Bragg
Buddy Bragg is a charming, wisecracking bank robber and loyal partner-in-crime to Jack Foley in the crime film "Out of Sight."
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D.
Swan Burnett
Swan Burnett was an American physician best known as the husband of British-American novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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E.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| airedOn | OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Queen Sugar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | drama television series ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bordelon family legacy ⓘ |
| basedOn | character in Natalie Baszile’s novel Queen Sugar ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
devoted father
ⓘ
impulsive ⓘ loyal ⓘ protective ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Ava DuVernay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Bordelon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Queen Sugar season 1 episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Ralph Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Blue Bordelon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Blue Bordelon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCriminalRecord | former convict ⓘ |
| hasRelationship | romantic relationship with Darla Sutton ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Darla Sutton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character in Queen Sugar ⓘ |
| network | Oprah Winfrey Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
ⓘ
sugarcane farmer ⓘ |
| parent |
Ernest Bordelon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trudy Bordelon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kofi Siriboe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Louisiana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Josephine, Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
American South
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
rural Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Charley Bordelon West
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nova Bordelon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyArc |
raising his son as a single father
ⓘ
rebuilding his life after prison ⓘ struggle to manage the Bordelon family farm ⓘ |
| strugglesWith |
financial instability
ⓘ
rebuilding family trust ⓘ trust issues ⓘ |
| theme |
family legacy
ⓘ
fatherhood ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| worksOn | Bordelon family sugarcane farm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ralph Angel Bordelon Description of subject: Ralph Angel Bordelon is a central character in the television drama "Queen Sugar," portrayed as a struggling but devoted single father working to rebuild his life and family legacy on a Louisiana sugarcane farm.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.