Ronald Lacey
E252422
Ronald Lacey was a British character actor best known for his chilling portrayal of the sinister Gestapo agent Major Toht in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ronald Lacey canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1804427 — 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: Ronald Lacey Context triple: [Raiders of the Lost Ark, castMember, Ronald Lacey]
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A.
Eric Gairy
Eric Gairy was a Grenadian politician and trade union leader who served as the country’s first prime minister and was later overthrown in a 1979 coup.
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B.
Thomas Lownds
Thomas Lownds was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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C.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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D.
Clive Griffin
Clive Griffin is a British pop and soul singer best known for his 1993 duet "When I Fall in Love" with Celine Dion from the film Sleepless in Seattle.
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E.
John Leeson
John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
- 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: Ronald Lacey Target entity description: Ronald Lacey was a British character actor best known for his chilling portrayal of the sinister Gestapo agent Major Toht in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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A.
Eric Gairy
Eric Gairy was a Grenadian politician and trade union leader who served as the country’s first prime minister and was later overthrown in a 1979 coup.
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B.
Thomas Lownds
Thomas Lownds was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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C.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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D.
Clive Griffin
Clive Griffin is a British pop and soul singer best known for his 1993 duet "When I Fall in Love" with Celine Dion from the film Sleepless in Seattle.
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E.
John Leeson
John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| characterIn | Raiders of the Lost Ark ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Lacey ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | character acting ⓘ |
| givenName | Ronald ⓘ |
| knownFor | portrayal of Major Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ronald Lacey ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole | Major Toht ⓘ |
| notableWork | Raiders of the Lost Ark ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Raiders of the Lost Ark ⓘ |
| portrayed | Major Arnold Toht ⓘ |
| typeOfActor | character actor ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
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: Ronald Lacey Description of subject: Ronald Lacey was a British character actor best known for his chilling portrayal of the sinister Gestapo agent Major Toht in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.