Lemmon
E243974
Lemmon is the surname of Jack Lemmon, the acclaimed American actor known for his roles in classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lemmon canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217826 — 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: Lemmon Context triple: [Jack Lemmon, familyName, Lemmon]
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A.
Hedison
Hedison is a surname most notably associated with American photographer and director Alexandra Hedison and her family.
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B.
John William Ferrell
John William Ferrell is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in hit comedy films such as "Anchorman" and "Elf."
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C.
Errol
Errol is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a first name in various English-speaking countries.
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D.
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp was a British-born American film actor and director best known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in numerous silent and sound films.
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E.
Leo White
Leo White was a British-born American character actor and director best known for his work in silent films, including frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
- 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: Lemmon Target entity description: Lemmon is the surname of Jack Lemmon, the acclaimed American actor known for his roles in classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
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A.
Hedison
Hedison is a surname most notably associated with American photographer and director Alexandra Hedison and her family.
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B.
John William Ferrell
John William Ferrell is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in hit comedy films such as "Anchorman" and "Elf."
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C.
Errol
Errol is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a first name in various English-speaking countries.
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D.
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp was a British-born American film actor and director best known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in numerous silent and sound films.
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E.
Leo White
Leo White was a British-born American character actor and director best known for his work in silent films, including frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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family name ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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comedy film ⓘ drama film ⓘ romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasGenderForm | unisex surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jack Lemmon ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Lemmon ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Lemmons
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Lemon ⓘ |
| isWrittenIn | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | roles in classic Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Some Like It Hot
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The Apartment ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
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stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jack Lemmon ⓘ |
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: Lemmon Description of subject: Lemmon is the surname of Jack Lemmon, the acclaimed American actor known for his roles in classic films such as "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.