Norman Lloyd
E12322
film actor
film director
film producer
human
stage actor
television actor
television director
television producer
theatre director
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Norman Lloyd canonical | 19 |
| Norman Nathan Lloyd | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T56620 — 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: Norman Lloyd Context triple: [Norman, hasGivenNameBearer, Norman Lloyd]
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A.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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B.
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern is an acclaimed American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as "Nebraska," "Coming Home," and numerous collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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C.
Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc was a legendary American voice actor best known for bringing to life numerous iconic Looney Tunes characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.
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D.
Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor renowned for his deadpan delivery and influential comedy albums and sitcoms, including "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart."
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E.
Frank Mankiewicz
Frank Mankiewicz was an American journalist, political strategist, and public relations executive best known for his prominent roles in Democratic politics and media, including serving as president of National Public Radio.
- 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: Norman Lloyd Target entity description: Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
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A.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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B.
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern is an acclaimed American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as "Nebraska," "Coming Home," and numerous collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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C.
Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc was a legendary American voice actor best known for bringing to life numerous iconic Looney Tunes characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig.
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D.
Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor renowned for his deadpan delivery and influential comedy albums and sitcoms, including "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart."
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E.
Frank Mankiewicz
Frank Mankiewicz was an American journalist, political strategist, and public relations executive best known for his prominent roles in Democratic politics and media, including serving as president of National Public Radio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Dead Poets Society
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Limelight ⓘ Saboteur ⓘ Spellbound ⓘ St. Elsewhere ⓘ The Practice ⓘ |
| birthName |
Norman Nathan Lloyd
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linked to:
Norman Lloyd
|
| child | Josie Lloyd ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-11-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-05-11 ⓘ |
| directed | episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish American ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| name | Norman Lloyd ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | career spanned more than eight decades ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dead Poets Society
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Limelight ⓘ Saboteur ⓘ Spellbound ⓘ St. Elsewhere ⓘ The Practice ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ stage director ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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linked to:
Jersey City
|
| placeOfDeath |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
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| produced | Alfred Hitchcock Presents ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
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linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| spouse | Peggy Craven ⓘ |
| theatreCompany | Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Alfred Hitchcock
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Charlie Chaplin ⓘ Robin Williams ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1930s–2010s ⓘ |
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: Norman Lloyd Description of subject: Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.