Eric Blore as Bates
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Eric Blore as Bates is the comically officious valet character in the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical film "Top Hat."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Blore as Bates canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2007545 — 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: Eric Blore as Bates Context triple: [Top Hat, portraysCharacter, Eric Blore as Bates]
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A.
Michael Cage
Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
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B.
Donald Bates
Donald Bates is an Australian architect best known as a co-designer of Melbourne’s landmark Federation Square complex.
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C.
John Michael Most
John Michael Most was a legendary American sports broadcaster best known as the longtime, passionately partisan radio voice of the Boston Celtics.
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D.
Jonathan Bourne Jr.
Jonathan Bourne Jr. was a prominent 19th-century American whaling merchant and civic leader from Massachusetts whose influence led to the naming of the town of Bourne in his honor.
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E.
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb)
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb) is the fictional serial killer and primary antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for his gruesome crimes that drive the story's investigation.
- 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: Eric Blore as Bates Target entity description: Eric Blore as Bates is the comically officious valet character in the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical film "Top Hat."
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A.
Michael Cage
Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
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B.
Donald Bates
Donald Bates is an Australian architect best known as a co-designer of Melbourne’s landmark Federation Square complex.
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C.
John Michael Most
John Michael Most was a legendary American sports broadcaster best known as the longtime, passionately partisan radio voice of the Boston Celtics.
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D.
Jonathan Bourne Jr.
Jonathan Bourne Jr. was a prominent 19th-century American whaling merchant and civic leader from Massachusetts whose influence led to the naming of the town of Bourne in his honor.
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E.
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb)
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb) is the fictional serial killer and primary antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for his gruesome crimes that drive the story's investigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Top Hat ⓘ |
| appearsInDanceFilm | true ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterArchetype | English gentleman’s valet ⓘ |
| blackAndWhiteFilmCharacter | true ⓘ |
| characterType | comically officious valet ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuredInFilmStarring |
Fred Astaire
ⓘ
Ginger Rogers ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Mark Sandrich ⓘ |
| filmStudioOfWork | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | musical film ⓘ |
| hasGenreElement |
musical comedy
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic relief
ⓘ
servant–master banter ⓘ |
| occupation | valet ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers films
ⓘ
linked to:
Astaire–Rogers filmography
|
| portrayedBy | Eric Blore ⓘ |
| settingOfCharacter |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Venice ⓘ |
| yearOfFilmRelease | 1935 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Eric Blore as Bates Description of subject: Eric Blore as Bates is the comically officious valet character in the 1935 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical film "Top Hat."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.