Karl Malden
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Karl Malden was an American actor known for his Oscar-winning performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his role in the television series "The Streets of San Francisco."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Karl Malden canonical | 44 |
| Karl Malden (1972–1977) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794982 — 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: Karl Malden Context triple: [Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Karl Malden]
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A.
James Whitmore
James Whitmore was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater, including a memorable role in *The Shawshank Redemption*.
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B.
Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger was an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, method-style performances in films such as "On the Waterfront," "In the Heat of the Night," and "The Pawnbroker."
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C.
John Houseman
John Houseman was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer best known for co-founding the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and for his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
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D.
Jason Robards
Jason Robards was an acclaimed American stage and film actor renowned for his powerful performances in Eugene O’Neill plays and his Oscar-winning supporting roles in films such as "All the President’s Men" and "Julia."
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E.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor renowned for his powerful and versatile performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."
- 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: Karl Malden Target entity description: Karl Malden was an American actor known for his Oscar-winning performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his role in the television series "The Streets of San Francisco."
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A.
James Whitmore
James Whitmore was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater, including a memorable role in *The Shawshank Redemption*.
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B.
Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger was an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, method-style performances in films such as "On the Waterfront," "In the Heat of the Night," and "The Pawnbroker."
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C.
John Houseman
John Houseman was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer best known for co-founding the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and for his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
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D.
Jason Robards
Jason Robards was an acclaimed American stage and film actor renowned for his powerful performances in Eugene O’Neill plays and his Oscar-winning supporting roles in films such as "All the President’s Men" and "Julia."
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E.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor renowned for his powerful and versatile performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Karl Malden Description of subject: Karl Malden was an American actor known for his Oscar-winning performance in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and his role in the television series "The Streets of San Francisco."
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film Birdman of Alcatraz
subject linked to:
Lt. Mike Stone – Karl Malden
subject linked to:
Lt. Mike Stone – Karl Malden
linked to: Karl Malden
subject linked to:
Father Barry in On the Waterfront
subject linked to:
All Fall Down