Rulon Timpson Jeffs
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Rulon Timpson Jeffs was the longtime leader and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist sect.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rulon Timpson Jeffs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10177328 — 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: Rulon Timpson Jeffs Context triple: [Rulon Jeffs, fullName, Rulon Timpson Jeffs]
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A.
Warren Jeffs
Warren Jeffs is an American polygamist and convicted sex offender who led the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as its self-proclaimed prophet.
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B.
Moroni Olsen
Moroni Olsen was an American character actor known for his authoritative voice and frequent supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
John Wesley Everman
John Wesley Everman was a notable figure after whom the city of Everman, Texas, was named, likely recognized for his local influence or contributions to the area’s development.
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D.
Denton True Young
Denton True Young, better known as Cy Young, was a legendary American Major League Baseball pitcher whose record 511 career wins inspired the naming of the annual Cy Young Award for pitching excellence.
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E.
Richard Madsen
Richard Madsen is an American sociologist and scholar of Chinese society and culture, known for his influential work on religion, morality, and modernity, often in collaboration with Robert N. Bellah.
- 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: Rulon Timpson Jeffs Target entity description: Rulon Timpson Jeffs was the longtime leader and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist sect.
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A.
Warren Jeffs
Warren Jeffs is an American polygamist and convicted sex offender who led the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as its self-proclaimed prophet.
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B.
Moroni Olsen
Moroni Olsen was an American character actor known for his authoritative voice and frequent supporting roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
John Wesley Everman
John Wesley Everman was a notable figure after whom the city of Everman, Texas, was named, likely recognized for his local influence or contributions to the area’s development.
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D.
Denton True Young
Denton True Young, better known as Cy Young, was a legendary American Major League Baseball pitcher whose record 511 career wins inspired the naming of the annual Cy Young Award for pitching excellence.
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E.
Richard Madsen
Richard Madsen is an American sociologist and scholar of Chinese society and culture, known for his influential work on religion, morality, and modernity, often in collaboration with Robert N. Bellah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mormon fundamentalist
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human ⓘ polygamist ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| activeYears | 1986-2002 as FLDS leader ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1909-12-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hildale, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| child | Warren Jeffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfResidence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| deathDate | 2002-09-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | St. George, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Jeffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Warren Jeffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Rulon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
patriarchal religious authority
ⓘ
polygamy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
ⓘ
promoting and practicing polygamy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Mormon fundamentalist movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Rulon Timpson Jeffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assumed leadership of the FLDS Church after the death of Leroy S. Johnson ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of the FLDS Church community at Colorado City–Hildale ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | dozens of children ⓘ |
| occupation |
church president
ⓘ
religious leader ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ⓘ |
| predecessor | Leroy S. Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mormon fundamentalism ⓘ |
| religiousTitle |
president
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prophet ⓘ |
| residence |
Colorado City, Arizona, United States
NERFINISHED
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Hildale, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | multiple wives ⓘ |
| successor | Warren Jeffs 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: Rulon Timpson Jeffs Description of subject: Rulon Timpson Jeffs was the longtime leader and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist sect.
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