John Holland
E407983
John Holland was an American actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Holland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4030097 — 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: John Holland Context triple: [The Secret Code, castMember, John Holland]
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A.
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer best known for his film scores, particularly for notable Australian and international movies from the 1970s onward.
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B.
Walter P. Moore
Walter P. Moore was a prominent American structural engineer known for pioneering work on large-span sports facilities and innovative stadium designs.
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C.
William Tracy
William Tracy was an American film actor best known for his comedic roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood movies.
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D.
John William Wallace Otto
John William Wallace Otto was a compiler and editor known for assembling the legal and governmental documents published as the Otto Reports.
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E.
Charles Gwathmey
Charles Gwathmey was a prominent American modernist architect known for his influential residential designs and as a key member of the New York Five.
- 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: John Holland Target entity description: John Holland was an American actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television productions.
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A.
Bruce Smeaton
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer best known for his film scores, particularly for notable Australian and international movies from the 1970s onward.
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B.
Walter P. Moore
Walter P. Moore was a prominent American structural engineer known for pioneering work on large-span sports facilities and innovative stadium designs.
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C.
William Tracy
William Tracy was an American film actor best known for his comedic roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood movies.
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D.
John William Wallace Otto
John William Wallace Otto was a compiler and editor known for assembling the legal and governmental documents published as the Otto Reports.
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E.
Charles Gwathmey
Charles Gwathmey was a prominent American modernist architect known for his influential residential designs and as a key member of the New York Five.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
mid-20th-century film
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mid-20th-century television ⓘ supporting roles ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: John Holland Description of subject: John Holland was an American actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television productions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.