Howard Da Silva
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Howard Da Silva was an American character actor and singer known for his work on Broadway and in film, including notable roles in classic musicals and dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Da Silva canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T100258 — 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: Howard Da Silva Context triple: [Oklahoma!, originalBroadwayStar, Howard Da Silva]
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A.
Armando Hart Dávalos
Armando Hart Dávalos was a prominent Cuban revolutionary, intellectual, and politician who served as a key leader in the Cuban Revolution and later as Cuba’s Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
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B.
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones was the English mariner who captained the Mayflower on its historic 1620 voyage carrying the Pilgrims to New England.
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C.
Rafael Cerero
Rafael Cerero was a Spanish representative involved in the negotiations that concluded the Spanish–American War with the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
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D.
Jorge
Jorge is the birth name of Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the first pope from the Americas.
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E.
Cedric Maxwell
Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
- 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: Howard Da Silva Target entity description: Howard Da Silva was an American character actor and singer known for his work on Broadway and in film, including notable roles in classic musicals and dramas.
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A.
Armando Hart Dávalos
Armando Hart Dávalos was a prominent Cuban revolutionary, intellectual, and politician who served as a key leader in the Cuban Revolution and later as Cuba’s Minister of Education and Minister of Culture.
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B.
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones was the English mariner who captained the Mayflower on its historic 1620 voyage carrying the Pilgrims to New England.
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C.
Rafael Cerero
Rafael Cerero was a Spanish representative involved in the negotiations that concluded the Spanish–American War with the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
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D.
Jorge
Jorge is the birth name of Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the first pope from the Americas.
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E.
Cedric Maxwell
Cedric Maxwell is a former NBA forward best known for his key role in the Boston Celtics’ 1981 and 1984 championship teams and for earning the 1981 NBA Finals MVP award.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Howard Da Silva Description of subject: Howard Da Silva was an American character actor and singer known for his work on Broadway and in film, including notable roles in classic musicals and dramas.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Oklahoma! (stage production)
subject linked to:
1776 (stage musical)
subject linked to:
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