Gary Lockwood
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Gary Lockwood is an American actor best known for his role as astronaut Frank Poole in Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction classic "2001: A Space Odyssey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gary Lockwood canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1011810 — 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: Gary Lockwood Context triple: [The Magic Sword, starring, Gary Lockwood]
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A.
Gary Melius
Gary Melius is an American real estate developer best known for owning and extensively restoring Oheka Castle, a historic Gold Coast mansion on Long Island.
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B.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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C.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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D.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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E.
John Sankey
John Sankey was a British Labour politician and trade unionist associated with the National Labour Organisation.
- 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: Gary Lockwood Target entity description: Gary Lockwood is an American actor best known for his role as astronaut Frank Poole in Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction classic "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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A.
Gary Melius
Gary Melius is an American real estate developer best known for owning and extensively restoring Oheka Castle, a historic Gold Coast mansion on Long Island.
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B.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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C.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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D.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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E.
John Sankey
John Sankey was a British Labour politician and trade unionist associated with the National Labour Organisation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Gary Lockwood Description of subject: Gary Lockwood is an American actor best known for his role as astronaut Frank Poole in Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction classic "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.