Charles McNaughton
E137630
Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles McNaughton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201301 — 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: Charles McNaughton Context triple: [Treasure Island (1934 film), starredActor, Charles McNaughton]
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John Bodkin Adams
John Bodkin Adams was a British general practitioner suspected of being a serial killer in the 1940s and 1950s, whose controversial trial for the murder of an elderly patient became one of the most famous criminal cases in UK medical and legal history.
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B.
Henry Byron Booth
Henry Byron Booth was a 19th-century American actor and member of the prominent Booth theatrical family, son of the famed tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
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D.
John Bellingham
John Bellingham was a British merchant best known for assassinating Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812, the only successful assassination of a British prime minister.
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E.
Thomas Hayter
Thomas Hayter was an 18th-century British naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing Royal Navy affairs.
- 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: Charles McNaughton Target entity description: Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
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A.
John Bodkin Adams
John Bodkin Adams was a British general practitioner suspected of being a serial killer in the 1940s and 1950s, whose controversial trial for the murder of an elderly patient became one of the most famous criminal cases in UK medical and legal history.
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B.
Henry Byron Booth
Henry Byron Booth was a 19th-century American actor and member of the prominent Booth theatrical family, son of the famed tragedian Junius Brutus Booth.
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C.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
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D.
John Bellingham
John Bellingham was a British merchant best known for assassinating Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812, the only successful assassination of a British prime minister.
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E.
Thomas Hayter
Thomas Hayter was an 18th-century British naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing Royal Navy affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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stage acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | character roles ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Charles McNaughton Description of subject: Charles McNaughton was a British actor active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in films and on stage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.