Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill
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Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill is the suave, quick-witted advertising executive mistaken for a spy in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "North by Northwest."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3971071 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill Context triple: [North by Northwest, portraysCharacter, Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill]
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A.
Thomas Crown
Thomas Crown is a wealthy, sophisticated businessman who masterminds high-stakes heists for sport in the film "The Thomas Crown Affair."
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B.
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele is the intense, world-weary screenwriter protagonist whose volatile charm and simmering menace drive the dark romantic tension and psychological ambiguity at the heart of the film.
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C.
Jack Weston
Jack Weston was an American character actor known for his comic and dramatic roles in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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D.
Rick Blaine
Rick Blaine is the cynical yet ultimately self-sacrificing American nightclub owner portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in the classic film "Casablanca."
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E.
Richard Hannay
Richard Hannay is the resourceful gentleman-hero and amateur spy who becomes entangled in international intrigue in John Buchan’s classic adventure novel "The 39 Steps."
- 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: Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill Target entity description: Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill is the suave, quick-witted advertising executive mistaken for a spy in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "North by Northwest."
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A.
Thomas Crown
Thomas Crown is a wealthy, sophisticated businessman who masterminds high-stakes heists for sport in the film "The Thomas Crown Affair."
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B.
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele is the intense, world-weary screenwriter protagonist whose volatile charm and simmering menace drive the dark romantic tension and psychological ambiguity at the heart of the film.
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C.
Jack Weston
Jack Weston was an American character actor known for his comic and dramatic roles in film, television, and theater from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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D.
Rick Blaine
Rick Blaine is the cynical yet ultimately self-sacrificing American nightclub owner portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in the classic film "Casablanca."
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E.
Richard Hannay
Richard Hannay is the resourceful gentleman-hero and amateur spy who becomes entangled in international intrigue in John Buchan’s classic adventure novel "The 39 Steps."
- 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: Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill Description of subject: Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill is the suave, quick-witted advertising executive mistaken for a spy in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "North by Northwest."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.