Bud Cort
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Bud Cort is an American actor and director best known for his iconic role as the young Harold in the cult classic film "Harold and Maude."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bud Cort canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2179346 — 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: Bud Cort Context triple: [Harold and Maude, castMember, Bud Cort]
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A.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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B.
Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown was a popular American comedian and film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, known for his wide-mouthed grin and roles in numerous Hollywood comedies.
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C.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
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D.
Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton was an American character actor and musician known for his distinctive, world-weary presence in films such as "Paris, Texas," "Repo Man," and "Alien."
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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: Bud Cort Target entity description: Bud Cort is an American actor and director best known for his iconic role as the young Harold in the cult classic film "Harold and Maude."
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A.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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B.
Joe E. Brown
Joe E. Brown was a popular American comedian and film actor of the 1930s and 1940s, known for his wide-mouthed grin and roles in numerous Hollywood comedies.
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C.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
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D.
Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton was an American character actor and musician known for his distinctive, world-weary presence in films such as "Paris, Texas," "Repo Man," and "Alien."
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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 (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: Bud Cort Description of subject: Bud Cort is an American actor and director best known for his iconic role as the young Harold in the cult classic film "Harold and Maude."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.