Stephen
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Stephen is the given first name of the iconic American actor and filmmaker Steve McQueen, known as the "King of Cool."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9720448 — 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: Stephen Context triple: [Steve McQueen, givenName, Stephen]
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A.
Stephen
Stephen is the formal given name of Steve Wozniak, the American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
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B.
Stephen
Stephen is the middle name of Harold Stephen Black, an American electrical engineer known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier.
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C.
Stephen
Stephen is the full given name of former Scottish footballer and manager Steve Nicol, best known for his successful career with Liverpool FC in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Stephen
Stephen is the given first name of English actor, comedian, and writer Steve Coogan.
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E.
Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Marley, a Jamaican musician and son of reggae legend Bob Marley.
- 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: Stephen Target entity description: Stephen is the given first name of the iconic American actor and filmmaker Steve McQueen, known as the "King of Cool."
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Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Stills, the American singer-songwriter and musician known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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B.
Stephen
Stephen is the given first name of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair, who was a prominent American football player.
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C.
Stephen
Stephen is the given first name of Steve Case, the American entrepreneur and co-founder of AOL.
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D.
Stephen
Stephen is the given first name of English actor, comedian, and writer Steve Coogan.
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Stephen
Stephen is the given name of Stephen Decatur, a renowned early 19th-century United States naval officer celebrated for his heroism in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthName | Terrence Stephen McQueen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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television ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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drama film ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Terrence Stephen McQueen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
cool, laconic screen presence
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motorsport enthusiast ⓘ |
| hasFirstName | Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | King of Cool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Steve McQueen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShortName | Steve McQueen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later action film stars ⓘ |
| isA |
iconic American actor
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iconic American filmmaker ⓘ |
| isKnownAs | Steve McQueen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
antihero screen persona
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roles in action and adventure films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bullitt
NERFINISHED
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Junior Bonner NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Mans NERFINISHED ⓘ Love with the Proper Stranger NERFINISHED ⓘ Papillon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Getaway NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Escape NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magnificent Seven NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sand Pebbles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thomas Crown Affair NERFINISHED ⓘ The Towering Inferno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Hollywood New Wave era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Stephen Description of subject: Stephen is the given first name of the iconic American actor and filmmaker Steve McQueen, known as the "King of Cool."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.