Joe Boyd
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Joe Boyd is the middle-aged baseball fan in the musical "Damn Yankees" who sells his soul to the Devil to help his beloved Washington Senators defeat the New York Yankees.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Boyd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10954812 — 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: Joe Boyd Context triple: [Damn Yankees, character, Joe Boyd]
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A.
Walter Boyd
Walter Boyd is a former Jamaican international footballer best known for his prolific goal-scoring and charismatic playing style as a forward in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Ernest Young
Ernest Young is a prominent American constitutional law scholar and professor at Duke University School of Law.
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C.
Jeff Glixman
Jeff Glixman is an American record producer best known for his work with rock bands such as Kansas and for producing influential albums in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Ken Ford
Ken Ford is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his work in artificial intelligence and human-centered computing, particularly through his leadership at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition.
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E.
Henry Diltz
Henry Diltz is an American photographer renowned for his iconic images of 1960s and 1970s rock musicians and classic album covers.
- 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: Joe Boyd Target entity description: Joe Boyd is the middle-aged baseball fan in the musical "Damn Yankees" who sells his soul to the Devil to help his beloved Washington Senators defeat the New York Yankees.
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A.
Walter Boyd
Walter Boyd is a former Jamaican international footballer best known for his prolific goal-scoring and charismatic playing style as a forward in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Ernest Young
Ernest Young is a prominent American constitutional law scholar and professor at Duke University School of Law.
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C.
Jeff Glixman
Jeff Glixman is an American record producer best known for his work with rock bands such as Kansas and for producing influential albums in the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Ken Ford
Ken Ford is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his work in artificial intelligence and human-centered computing, particularly through his leadership at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition.
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E.
Henry Diltz
Henry Diltz is an American photographer renowned for his iconic images of 1960s and 1970s rock musicians and classic album covers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
stage musical character ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom | The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ageGroup | middle-aged ⓘ |
| antagonisticTeam | New York Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Damn Yankees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Faustian bargain
ⓘ
loyalty in marriage ⓘ sports fandom ⓘ |
| basedIn | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Douglass Wallop
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Abbott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dealWith | Mr. Applegate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fandom | Washington Senators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Damn Yankees (1955 stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| homeLifeWith | Meg Boyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| makesPactFor | baseball success ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| motivation | help Washington Senators win the pennant ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | salesman ⓘ |
| sellsSoulTo | Mr. Applegate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | baseball ⓘ |
| spouse | Meg Boyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportsTeam | Washington Senators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamRivalry | Washington Senators vs. New York Yankees ⓘ |
| transformedInto | Joe Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Joe Boyd Description of subject: Joe Boyd is the middle-aged baseball fan in the musical "Damn Yankees" who sells his soul to the Devil to help his beloved Washington Senators defeat the New York Yankees.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lola (Damn Yankees)