John Crawford
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John Crawford was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Crawford canonical | 5 |
| John "Plato" Crawford | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042813 — 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 Crawford Context triple: [The Outsider (1961 film), castMember, John Crawford]
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A.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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B.
William Holmes
William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
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C.
Michael Martin
Michael Martin was a British Labour politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons in the early 21st century and was later created Baron Martin of Springburn.
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D.
Bernhard Goetz
Bernhard Goetz is an American man who gained national notoriety in the 1980s as the "Subway Vigilante" after shooting four teenagers on a New York City subway train, sparking intense debate over crime, self-defense, and race.
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E.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
- 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 Crawford Target entity description: John Crawford was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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A.
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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B.
William Holmes
William Holmes was a film editor best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the 1941 biographical war film "Sergeant York."
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C.
Michael Martin
Michael Martin was a British Labour politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons in the early 21st century and was later created Baron Martin of Springburn.
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D.
Bernhard Goetz
Bernhard Goetz is an American man who gained national notoriety in the 1980s as the "Subway Vigilante" after shooting four teenagers on a New York City subway train, sparking intense debate over crime, self-defense, and race.
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E.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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crime film ⓘ drama ⓘ western ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
appeared in numerous films
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appeared in numerous television series ⓘ prolific supporting actor ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in film
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supporting roles in television ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
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American television history ⓘ |
| workedIn |
American television industry
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Hollywood film industry ⓘ |
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 Crawford Description of subject: John Crawford was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1980s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Rebel Without a Cause
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rolePortrayed
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John "Plato" Crawford
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linked to: John Crawford