Hank Taylor – Burgess Meredith
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Hank Taylor is a character portrayed by Burgess Meredith in the 1940 musical film "Second Chorus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hank Taylor – Burgess Meredith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008305 — 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: Hank Taylor – Burgess Meredith Context triple: [Second Chorus, characterPlayedBy, Hank Taylor – Burgess Meredith]
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A.
Hank Soar
Hank Soar was an American sports figure best known as an NFL player and later a longtime American League baseball umpire.
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B.
Red Rolfe
Red Rolfe was an American Major League Baseball third baseman and later manager, best known for his standout career with the New York Yankees in the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Phil Silvers as Herb Blake
Phil Silvers as Herb Blake is a comic supporting character in the 1950 musical film "Summer Stock," showcasing Silvers’ trademark fast-talking, wisecracking style.
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D.
Hank O’Day
Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
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E.
Alf Garnett – Warren Mitchell
Alf Garnett, portrayed by Warren Mitchell, is a famously bigoted, outspoken East End working-class patriarch from the British sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part," known for his reactionary views and satirical representation of social attitudes in mid-20th-century Britain.
- 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: Hank Taylor – Burgess Meredith Target entity description: Hank Taylor is a character portrayed by Burgess Meredith in the 1940 musical film "Second Chorus."
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A.
Hank Soar
Hank Soar was an American sports figure best known as an NFL player and later a longtime American League baseball umpire.
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B.
Red Rolfe
Red Rolfe was an American Major League Baseball third baseman and later manager, best known for his standout career with the New York Yankees in the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Phil Silvers as Herb Blake
Phil Silvers as Herb Blake is a comic supporting character in the 1950 musical film "Summer Stock," showcasing Silvers’ trademark fast-talking, wisecracking style.
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D.
Hank O’Day
Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
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E.
Alf Garnett – Warren Mitchell
Alf Garnett, portrayed by Warren Mitchell, is a famously bigoted, outspoken East End working-class patriarch from the British sitcom "Till Death Us Do Part," known for his reactionary views and satirical representation of social attitudes in mid-20th-century Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
human ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Second Chorus
ⓘ
linked to:
"Second Chorus"
Second Chorus ⓘ
linked to:
"Second Chorus"
|
| associatedWithBand | college dance band ⓘ |
| characterIn | American musical comedy film ⓘ |
| coStarsWith |
Artie Shaw
ⓘ
Fred Astaire ⓘ Paulette Goddard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Second Chorus (1940 film) ⓘ |
| genre | musical film ⓘ |
| hasName | Hank Taylor ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
musician
ⓘ
trumpet player ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | one of two rival trumpeters ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | Second Chorus cast ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Burgess Meredith ⓘ |
| portrays | Hank Taylor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Ellen Miller ⓘ |
| setting | college campus ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1940 ⓘ |
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: Hank Taylor – Burgess Meredith Description of subject: Hank Taylor is a character portrayed by Burgess Meredith in the 1940 musical film "Second Chorus."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.