Harry Dean Stanton
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Harry Dean Stanton was an American character actor and musician known for his distinctive, world-weary presence in films such as "Paris, Texas," "Repo Man," and "Alien."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry Dean Stanton canonical | 48 |
| Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984955 — 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: Harry Dean Stanton Context triple: [Alpha Dog, hasCastMember, Harry Dean Stanton]
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A.
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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B.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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C.
Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda was an acclaimed American film and stage actor known for his portrayals of principled, quietly heroic characters in classic films such as "12 Angry Men" and "On Golden Pond."
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D.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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E.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
- 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: Harry Dean Stanton Target entity description: Harry Dean Stanton was an American character actor and musician known for his distinctive, world-weary presence in films such as "Paris, Texas," "Repo Man," and "Alien."
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A.
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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B.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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C.
Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda was an acclaimed American film and stage actor known for his portrayals of principled, quietly heroic characters in classic films such as "12 Angry Men" and "On Golden Pond."
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D.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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E.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Harry Dean Stanton Description of subject: Harry Dean Stanton was an American character actor and musician known for his distinctive, world-weary presence in films such as "Paris, Texas," "Repo Man," and "Alien."
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (film)
subject linked to:
film "Alpha Dog"
subject linked to:
Lucky
subject linked to:
documentary film "Bukowski: Born into This"
linked to: Harry Dean Stanton
subject linked to:
Farewell, My Lovely