James Gleason
E186317
James Gleason was an American character actor and playwright known for his gruff, fast-talking roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Gleason canonical | 15 |
| Joe Gould in Cinderella Man | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1224135 — 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: James Gleason Context triple: [A Guy Named Joe, castMember, James Gleason]
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A.
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
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B.
Adolph Green
Adolph Green was an American playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter best known for his long collaboration with Betty Comden on classic Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
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C.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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D.
Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford was an American character actor known for his rugged screen presence and acclaimed supporting roles in numerous classic Hollywood films.
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E.
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery was an American actor best known for his gruff yet often lovable screen persona and his Academy Award–winning performance in the film "The Champ" (1931).
- 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: James Gleason Target entity description: James Gleason was an American character actor and playwright known for his gruff, fast-talking roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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A.
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
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B.
Adolph Green
Adolph Green was an American playwright, lyricist, and screenwriter best known for his long collaboration with Betty Comden on classic Broadway musicals and Hollywood films.
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C.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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D.
Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford was an American character actor known for his rugged screen presence and acclaimed supporting roles in numerous classic Hollywood films.
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E.
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery was an American actor best known for his gruff yet often lovable screen persona and his Academy Award–winning performance in the film "The Champ" (1931).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: James Gleason Description of subject: James Gleason was an American character actor and playwright known for his gruff, fast-talking roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: James Gleason
subject linked to:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
subject linked to:
Down to Earth
subject linked to:
San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, United States