Lorre
E210195
Lorre is a surname most notably associated with Hungarian-American actor Peter Lorre and his family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lorre canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1890037 — 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: Lorre Context triple: [Catharine Lorre, familyName, Lorre]
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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.
Victor Jory
Victor Jory was a Canadian-born American character actor known for his distinctive deep voice and frequent portrayals of villains in film, television, and theater during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
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D.
Ward Bond
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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E.
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.
- 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: Lorre Target entity description: Lorre is a surname most notably associated with Hungarian-American actor Peter Lorre and his family.
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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.
Victor Jory
Victor Jory was a Canadian-born American character actor known for his distinctive deep voice and frequent portrayals of villains in film, television, and theater during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
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D.
Ward Bond
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Hungary
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hungarian-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Lorre ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Lorre ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Hungarian language ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Peter Lorre ⓘ |
| notableFor | film acting ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
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: Lorre Description of subject: Lorre is a surname most notably associated with Hungarian-American actor Peter Lorre and his family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.