Bob Steele
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Bob Steele was an American film actor best known for his roles in Westerns during the early to mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Steele canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008698 — 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: Bob Steele Context triple: [Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Bob Steele]
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A.
Rosco Gordon
Rosco Gordon was an American blues and R&B singer, pianist, and songwriter known for his distinctive offbeat piano style that influenced early rock and roll and ska.
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B.
Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
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C.
Ted Willis
Ted Willis was a prominent British screenwriter and playwright known for his prolific work in film and television during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Fred Tate
Fred Tate is a child prodigy whose extraordinary intellectual abilities and emotional struggles are central to the drama film "Little Man Tate."
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E.
Mack Gerhardt
Mack Gerhardt is a central character in the television series "The Unit," known as a tough and highly skilled member of an elite U.S. Army special operations team.
- 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: Bob Steele Target entity description: Bob Steele was an American film actor best known for his roles in Westerns during the early to mid-20th century.
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A.
Rosco Gordon
Rosco Gordon was an American blues and R&B singer, pianist, and songwriter known for his distinctive offbeat piano style that influenced early rock and roll and ska.
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B.
Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
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C.
Ted Willis
Ted Willis was a prominent British screenwriter and playwright known for his prolific work in film and television during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Fred Tate
Fred Tate is a child prodigy whose extraordinary intellectual abilities and emotional struggles are central to the drama film "Little Man Tate."
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E.
Mack Gerhardt
Mack Gerhardt is a central character in the television series "The Unit," known as a tough and highly skilled member of an elite U.S. Army special operations team.
- 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: Bob Steele Description of subject: Bob Steele was an American film actor best known for his roles in Westerns during the early to mid-20th century.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California, United States
subject linked to:
Robert Adrian Bradbury
subject linked to:
Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film)
subject linked to:
Billy the Kid in Texas (1940 film)