Douglass Watson
E404046
Douglass Watson was an American actor best known for his long-running role as family patriarch Mac Cory on the soap opera "Another World."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglass Watson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3987147 — 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: Douglass Watson Context triple: [Another World, notableActor, Douglass Watson]
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A.
Douglass Montgomery
Douglass Montgomery was an American film and stage actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his romantic and dramatic leading roles in Hollywood productions.
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B.
Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Dumbrille was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying suave villains and authority figures.
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C.
Ogden Mills Reid
Ogden Mills Reid was an American newspaper publisher who led the New York Herald Tribune and was part of the influential Reid media family.
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D.
William Howell Davis
William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
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E.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
- 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: Douglass Watson Target entity description: Douglass Watson was an American actor best known for his long-running role as family patriarch Mac Cory on the soap opera "Another World."
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A.
Douglass Montgomery
Douglass Montgomery was an American film and stage actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, known for his romantic and dramatic leading roles in Hollywood productions.
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B.
Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Dumbrille was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, often portraying suave villains and authority figures.
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C.
Ogden Mills Reid
Ogden Mills Reid was an American newspaper publisher who led the New York Herald Tribune and was part of the influential Reid media family.
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D.
William Howell Davis
William Howell Davis was the son of Varina Howell Davis and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, belonging to a prominent family in American Civil War history.
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E.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| characterRole | family patriarch ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Watson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ soap operas ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| genre | soap opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Douglass ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| knownFor | long-running role as family patriarch Mac Cory on Another World ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Douglass Watson ⓘ |
| notableRole | Mac Cory ⓘ |
| notableWork | Another World ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American soap opera actors
ⓘ
American television actors ⓘ |
| performerIn | Another World ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Douglass Watson Description of subject: Douglass Watson was an American actor best known for his long-running role as family patriarch Mac Cory on the soap opera "Another World."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.