Ward Bond
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Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ward Bond canonical | 46 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201469 — 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: Ward Bond Context triple: [Joan of Arc (1948 film), starring, Ward Bond]
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A.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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B.
Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras, directing classics such as "Anna Christie," "National Velvet," and several Greta Garbo films.
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C.
Richard Barthelmess
Richard Barthelmess was a prominent American silent and early sound film actor, best known for his emotionally nuanced performances in classics of the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
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E.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
- 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: Ward Bond Target entity description: Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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A.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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B.
Clarence Brown
Clarence Brown was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s silent and early sound eras, directing classics such as "Anna Christie," "National Velvet," and several Greta Garbo films.
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C.
Richard Barthelmess
Richard Barthelmess was a prominent American silent and early sound film actor, best known for his emotionally nuanced performances in classics of the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
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E.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Ward Bond Description of subject: Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
It’s a Wonderful Life
subject linked to:
film 'The Bob Mathias Story' (1954)
subject linked to:
Benkelman, Nebraska, United States
subject linked to:
Canyon Passage (1946 film)
subject linked to:
Canyon Passage (1946 film)