Bob Gunton
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Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Gunton canonical | 20 |
| Robert Patrick Gunton Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714965 — 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: Bob Gunton Context triple: [The Shawshank Redemption, starredActor, Bob Gunton]
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A.
Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood is a Canadian actor known for his versatile roles in film and television, including prominent performances in projects like "Star Trek," "Thirteen Days," and numerous acclaimed dramas.
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B.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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C.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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D.
Richard Gant
Richard Gant is an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, often portraying authoritative or tough-minded figures.
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E.
Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Tucker is an American actor known for his intense, character-driven roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Kingdom," "Westworld," and "City on a Hill."
- 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: Bob Gunton Target entity description: Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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A.
Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood is a Canadian actor known for his versatile roles in film and television, including prominent performances in projects like "Star Trek," "Thirteen Days," and numerous acclaimed dramas.
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B.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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C.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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D.
Richard Gant
Richard Gant is an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, often portraying authoritative or tough-minded figures.
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E.
Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Tucker is an American actor known for his intense, character-driven roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Kingdom," "Westworld," and "City on a Hill."
- 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: Bob Gunton Description of subject: Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Shawshank Redemption (1994 film)
linked to: Bob Gunton
subject linked to:
The 33 (2015 film about Chilean miners)
subject linked to:
Samuel Norton in The Shawshank Redemption
subject linked to:
Chief George Earle in Demolition Man
subject linked to:
strict prison warden Samuel Norton in The Shawshank Redemption