Albert Gran
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Albert Gran was a Norwegian-born American character actor active in early 20th-century silent and early sound films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Albert Gran canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5784448 — 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: Albert Gran Context triple: [Seventh Heaven, starring, Albert Gran]
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A.
Adhémar Dion
Adhémar Dion was the father of Canadian singer Celine Dion and a member of the large Dion family from Charlemagne, Quebec.
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B.
Denys Godefroy
Denys Godefroy was a 16th–17th century French jurist and scholar renowned for his critical editions of Roman legal texts and contributions to legal humanism.
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C.
Jacques de Maleville
Jacques de Maleville was a French jurist and politician who played a key role as one of the principal drafters of France’s Civil Code under Napoleon.
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D.
Fred de Gresac
Fred de Gresac was a French-born playwright and screenwriter known for her work on early 20th-century stage productions and silent films.
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E.
Gilles Adrien
Gilles Adrien is a French screenwriter best known for co-writing the visually distinctive fantasy film "The City of Lost Children."
- 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: Albert Gran Target entity description: Albert Gran was a Norwegian-born American character actor active in early 20th-century silent and early sound films.
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A.
Adhémar Dion
Adhémar Dion was the father of Canadian singer Celine Dion and a member of the large Dion family from Charlemagne, Quebec.
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B.
Denys Godefroy
Denys Godefroy was a 16th–17th century French jurist and scholar renowned for his critical editions of Roman legal texts and contributions to legal humanism.
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C.
Jacques de Maleville
Jacques de Maleville was a French jurist and politician who played a key role as one of the principal drafters of France’s Civil Code under Napoleon.
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D.
Fred de Gresac
Fred de Gresac was a French-born playwright and screenwriter known for her work on early 20th-century stage productions and silent films.
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E.
Gilles Adrien
Gilles Adrien is a French screenwriter best known for co-writing the visually distinctive fantasy film "The City of Lost Children."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Norwegian emigrant to the United States
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ person ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Norway
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1862-08-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1932-12-16 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Norwegian ⓘ |
| name | Albert Gran ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Marriage Circle
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The Merry Widow ⓘ The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg ⓘ
linked to:
The Student Prince
Three Women ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Norway
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Oslo ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1910s
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1920s ⓘ early 1930s ⓘ |
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: Albert Gran Description of subject: Albert Gran was a Norwegian-born American character actor active in early 20th-century silent and early sound films.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.