George Raft
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George Raft was an American film actor and dancer best known for his tough-guy roles in 1930s and 1940s gangster films such as "Scarface" and "Each Dawn I Die."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Raft canonical | 12 |
| George Raft in The George Raft Story | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2429468 — 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: George Raft Context triple: [Some Like It Hot, castMember, George Raft]
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A.
Warner Oland
Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor best known for portraying the detective Charlie Chan in a popular series of 1930s films.
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B.
Warren William
Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
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C.
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery was an American actor best known for his gruff yet often lovable screen persona and his Academy Award–winning performance in the film "The Champ" (1931).
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D.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
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E.
George Murphy
George Murphy was an American song-and-dance man and film actor of the 1930s and 1940s who later became a U.S. senator from California.
- 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: George Raft Target entity description: George Raft was an American film actor and dancer best known for his tough-guy roles in 1930s and 1940s gangster films such as "Scarface" and "Each Dawn I Die."
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A.
Warner Oland
Warner Oland was a Swedish-American actor best known for portraying the detective Charlie Chan in a popular series of 1930s films.
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B.
Warren William
Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
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C.
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery was an American actor best known for his gruff yet often lovable screen persona and his Academy Award–winning performance in the film "The Champ" (1931).
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D.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
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E.
George Murphy
George Murphy was an American song-and-dance man and film actor of the 1930s and 1940s who later became a U.S. senator from California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: George Raft Description of subject: George Raft was an American film actor and dancer best known for his tough-guy roles in 1930s and 1940s gangster films such as "Scarface" and "Each Dawn I Die."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cathedral City, California, United States
linked to: George Raft
subject linked to:
San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, United States