Bob Crane
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Bob Crane was an American actor and disc jockey best known for starring as Colonel Hogan in the 1960s television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Crane canonical | 25 |
| Bob Crane is portrayed by Greg Kinnear | 1 |
| Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1795008 — 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 Crane Context triple: [Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Bob Crane]
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A.
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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B.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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C.
Tom Bosley
Tom Bosley was an American actor best known for playing the warm, paternal Howard Cunningham on the classic television sitcom "Happy Days."
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D.
James Brolin
James Brolin is an American actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including "Westworld," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," and "Hotel."
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E.
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen was an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in the television series "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones."
- 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 Crane Target entity description: Bob Crane was an American actor and disc jockey best known for starring as Colonel Hogan in the 1960s television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
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A.
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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B.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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C.
Tom Bosley
Tom Bosley was an American actor best known for playing the warm, paternal Howard Cunningham on the classic television sitcom "Happy Days."
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D.
James Brolin
James Brolin is an American actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including "Westworld," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," and "Hotel."
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E.
Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen was an American actor and dancer best known for his roles in the television series "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones."
- 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: Bob Crane Description of subject: Bob Crane was an American actor and disc jockey best known for starring as Colonel Hogan in the 1960s television sitcom "Hogan's Heroes."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
West Hartford, Connecticut, United States
subject linked to:
The Donna Reed Show (TV episodes)
linked to: Bob Crane
linked to: Bob Crane
subject linked to:
Valley Oaks Memorial Park, Westlake Village, California, United States