Stan Shaw
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Stan Shaw is an American character actor known for his roles in films such as "Harlem Nights," "Rocky," and "The Boys in Company C."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stan Shaw canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232360 — 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: Stan Shaw Context triple: [Harlem Nights, starring, Stan Shaw]
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A.
Bryan Shaw
Bryan Shaw is an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his durability and heavy workload out of the bullpen, particularly during his tenure with the Cleveland Indians.
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B.
Curt Fraser
Curt Fraser is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach best known as the first head coach in Atlanta Thrashers franchise history.
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C.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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D.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national 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: Stan Shaw Target entity description: Stan Shaw is an American character actor known for his roles in films such as "Harlem Nights," "Rocky," and "The Boys in Company C."
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A.
Bryan Shaw
Bryan Shaw is an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his durability and heavy workload out of the bullpen, particularly during his tenure with the Cleveland Indians.
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B.
Curt Fraser
Curt Fraser is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and coach best known as the first head coach in Atlanta Thrashers franchise history.
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C.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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D.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Shaw ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Stan ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Stan Shaw ⓘ |
| notableRole |
role in Harlem Nights
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role in Rocky ⓘ role in The Boys in Company C ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cutthroat Island
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Fried Green Tomatoes ⓘ Harlem Nights ⓘ Hill Street Blues ⓘ Matlock ⓘ Murder, She Wrote ⓘ Rising Sun ⓘ
linked to:
Rising Sun (film)
Rocky ⓘ Roots: The Next Generations ⓘ
linked to:
Roots
Snake Eyes ⓘ The Boys in Company C ⓘ The Golden Girls ⓘ The Great Santini ⓘ The Monster Squad ⓘ Tough Enough ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Stan Shaw Description of subject: Stan Shaw is an American character actor known for his roles in films such as "Harlem Nights," "Rocky," and "The Boys in Company C."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.