Murray Hamilton
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Murray Hamilton was an American character actor best known for playing the stubborn Mayor Larry Vaughn in the classic thriller film "Jaws."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Murray Hamilton canonical | 31 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T167466 — 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: Murray Hamilton Context triple: [Jaws, starredActor, Murray Hamilton]
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A.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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B.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
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C.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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D.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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E.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
- 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: Murray Hamilton Target entity description: Murray Hamilton was an American character actor best known for playing the stubborn Mayor Larry Vaughn in the classic thriller film "Jaws."
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A.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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B.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
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C.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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D.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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E.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
- 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: Murray Hamilton Description of subject: Murray Hamilton was an American character actor best known for playing the stubborn Mayor Larry Vaughn in the classic thriller film "Jaws."
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mr. Robinson in The Graduate
subject linked to:
Larry
subject linked to:
Mayor Larry Vaughn (in Jaws)