Larry Steers
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Larry Steers was a prolific American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, appearing in hundreds of movies in mostly uncredited or supporting roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Steers canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4269010 — 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: Larry Steers Context triple: [Daughter of Shanghai, starring, Larry Steers]
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A.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Hal Stewart
Hal Stewart is the cameraman-turned-supervillain known as Tighten in the animated film "Megamind."
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D.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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E.
Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
- 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: Larry Steers Target entity description: Larry Steers was a prolific American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, appearing in hundreds of movies in mostly uncredited or supporting roles.
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A.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Hal Stewart
Hal Stewart is the cameraman-turned-supervillain known as Tighten in the animated film "Megamind."
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D.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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E.
Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Steers
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linked to:
Steer
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| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture ⓘ |
| name | Larry Steers ⓘ |
| notability | appeared in hundreds of films ⓘ |
| notableFor |
prolific appearances in silent and early sound films
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supporting roles ⓘ uncredited roles ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ |
| performanceType |
bit parts
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supporting roles ⓘ uncredited appearances ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| workPeriod | early 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: Larry Steers Description of subject: Larry Steers was a prolific American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, appearing in hundreds of movies in mostly uncredited or supporting roles.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.