Hutton
E186713
Hutton is a surname most notably associated with American actor Timothy Hutton, known for his Academy Award–winning performance in "Ordinary People."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hutton canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1652994 — 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: Hutton Context triple: [Timothy Hutton, familyName, Hutton]
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A.
Lottie Lyell
Lottie Lyell was a pioneering Australian silent film actress, screenwriter, editor, and filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the country’s first major female cinema artists.
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B.
James Hutton
James Hutton was an 18th-century Scottish geologist often called the "father of modern geology" for developing the theory of uniformitarianism and recognizing the immense age of the Earth.
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C.
Urquhart
Urquhart is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Highlands and borne by various notable figures in military, political, and literary contexts.
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D.
Hartley
Hartley is a small census-designated community located in Solano County, California.
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E.
Hartley
Hartley is an English-language surname of Old English origin, commonly associated with various notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
- 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: Hutton Target entity description: Hutton is a surname most notably associated with American actor Timothy Hutton, known for his Academy Award–winning performance in "Ordinary People."
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A.
Lottie Lyell
Lottie Lyell was a pioneering Australian silent film actress, screenwriter, editor, and filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the country’s first major female cinema artists.
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B.
James Hutton
James Hutton was an 18th-century Scottish geologist often called the "father of modern geology" for developing the theory of uniformitarianism and recognizing the immense age of the Earth.
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C.
Urquhart
Urquhart is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Highlands and borne by various notable figures in military, political, and literary contexts.
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D.
Hartley
Hartley is a small census-designated community located in Solano County, California.
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E.
Hartley
Hartley is an English-language surname of Old English origin, commonly associated with various notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
family name ⓘ film ⓘ film award ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardGivenFor | best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Ordinary People ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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film ⓘ television ⓘ |
| givenName | Timothy ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Hutton ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Timothy Hutton ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ordinary People ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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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: Hutton Description of subject: Hutton is a surname most notably associated with American actor Timothy Hutton, known for his Academy Award–winning performance in "Ordinary People."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.