Joseph Cotten
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Joseph Cotten was an American film actor best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles and his roles in classic films of the 1940s such as "The Third Man" and "Shadow of a Doubt."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Cotten canonical | 60 |
| Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T440421 — 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: Joseph Cotten Context triple: [Citizen Kane, starring, Joseph Cotten]
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A.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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B.
Louis Calhern
Louis Calhern was an American stage and film actor known for his sophisticated character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including notable performances in films like "The Asphalt Jungle" and "Julius Caesar."
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C.
Claude Rains
Claude Rains was a distinguished British-American character actor renowned for his nuanced performances in classic films such as "Casablanca," "The Invisible Man," and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
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D.
Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift was an acclaimed American actor and early method acting pioneer, known for his intense, emotionally nuanced performances in classic films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was an acclaimed American film actor renowned for his naturalistic performances and two Academy Award–winning roles in a career spanning from the 1930s to the 1960s.
- 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: Joseph Cotten Target entity description: Joseph Cotten was an American film actor best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles and his roles in classic films of the 1940s such as "The Third Man" and "Shadow of a Doubt."
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A.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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B.
Louis Calhern
Louis Calhern was an American stage and film actor known for his sophisticated character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including notable performances in films like "The Asphalt Jungle" and "Julius Caesar."
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C.
Claude Rains
Claude Rains was a distinguished British-American character actor renowned for his nuanced performances in classic films such as "Casablanca," "The Invisible Man," and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington."
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D.
Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift was an acclaimed American actor and early method acting pioneer, known for his intense, emotionally nuanced performances in classic films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy was an acclaimed American film actor renowned for his naturalistic performances and two Academy Award–winning roles in a career spanning from the 1930s to the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Joseph Cotten Description of subject: Joseph Cotten was an American film actor best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles and his roles in classic films of the 1940s such as "The Third Man" and "Shadow of a Doubt."
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Joseph Cotten
subject linked to:
Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre
subject linked to:
The Philadelphia Story Broadway production
subject linked to:
short story "What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte?"
subject linked to:
I’ll Be Seeing You