Dana Elcar
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Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dana Elcar canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2835062 — 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: Dana Elcar Context triple: [All of Me, starring, Dana Elcar]
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A.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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B.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Whitman was an American actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Mark."
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C.
Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna was an American actor and director known for his roles in films such as the "Rambo" series and numerous television shows including "The Real McCoys."
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D.
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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E.
Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart was an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including performances in "La Strada" and the TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
- 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: Dana Elcar Target entity description: Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
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A.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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B.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Whitman was an American actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Mark."
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C.
Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna was an American actor and director known for his roles in films such as the "Rambo" series and numerous television shows including "The Real McCoys."
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D.
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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E.
Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart was an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including performances in "La Strada" and the TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Dana Elcar Description of subject: Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.