H. L. Hunt
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H. L. Hunt was an American oil tycoon and one of the wealthiest men of the mid-20th century, known for his vast petroleum empire and influence in conservative politics.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| H. L. Hunt canonical | 10 |
| H. L. Hunt Jr. | 1 |
| Ray Lee Hunt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T785998 — 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: H. L. Hunt Context triple: [Hunt, hasNotableBearer, H. L. Hunt]
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A.
Richard D. Zanuck
Richard D. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive known for overseeing and producing numerous influential Hollywood films from the 1960s onward.
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B.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive, best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox and a key figure in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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C.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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D.
Hal Roach
Hal Roach was an influential American film and television producer and director best known for creating and producing classic comedy series such as Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang (The Little Rascals).
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E.
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Charles "Buddy" Rogers was an American actor and musician best known as a popular leading man of the late silent and early sound film era, often called "America's Boyfriend."
- 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: H. L. Hunt Target entity description: H. L. Hunt was an American oil tycoon and one of the wealthiest men of the mid-20th century, known for his vast petroleum empire and influence in conservative politics.
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A.
Richard D. Zanuck
Richard D. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive known for overseeing and producing numerous influential Hollywood films from the 1960s onward.
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B.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl F. Zanuck was a prominent American film producer and studio executive, best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox and a key figure in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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C.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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D.
Hal Roach
Hal Roach was an influential American film and television producer and director best known for creating and producing classic comedy series such as Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang (The Little Rascals).
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E.
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
Charles "Buddy" Rogers was an American actor and musician best known as a popular leading man of the late silent and early sound film era, often called "America's Boyfriend."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ oil tycoon ⓘ |
| activeYears |
early 20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
| businessRegion |
Texas
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United States of America ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney failure ⓘ |
| child |
Caroline Rose Hunt
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Lamar Hunt ⓘ Nelson Bunker Hunt ⓘ William Herbert Hunt ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889-02-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1974-11-29 ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Hunt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | petroleum industry ⓘ |
| fullName |
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt
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surface form:
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt Jr.
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| givenName | Haroldson ⓘ |
| knownFor |
funding conservative media and advocacy
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support for conservative political causes ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
amassing one of the largest personal fortunes of his time
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being one of the wealthiest Americans of the mid-20th century ⓘ building a large independent oil empire in the United States ⓘ influence on right-wing politics in the United States ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Caroline Rose Hunt
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Lamar Hunt ⓘ Nelson Bunker Hunt ⓘ William Herbert Hunt ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of the East Texas Oil Field holdings ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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investor ⓘ oil executive ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Illinois
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United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Dallas, Texas
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surface form:
Dallas
Texas ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservatism ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Dallas, Texas
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surface form:
Dallas
Texas ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lyda Bunker Hunt ⓘ |
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: H. L. Hunt Description of subject: H. L. Hunt was an American oil tycoon and one of the wealthiest men of the mid-20th century, known for his vast petroleum empire and influence in conservative politics.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ray Lee Hunt
subject surface form:
Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery
this entity surface form:
H. L. Hunt Jr.