Eric Linden
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Eric Linden was an American stage and film actor active in the 1930s, often cast as sensitive or troubled young men in Hollywood dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Linden canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6160353 — 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: Eric Linden Context triple: [A Family Affair, stars, Eric Linden]
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A.
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
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B.
Alex D. Linz
Alex D. Linz is an American former child actor best known for starring in "Home Alone 3" and voicing young Tarzan in Disney's animated film "Tarzan" (1999).
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C.
Eric Gregg
Eric Gregg was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure in the National League and his participation in several high-profile postseason games.
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D.
Jeremy Adelman
Jeremy Adelman is a composer best known for creating music for television, including the series "Hart of Dixie."
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E.
Eric Sigler
Eric Sigler is a researcher known for co-authoring influential work in artificial intelligence and machine learning alongside Tom B. Brown.
- 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: Eric Linden Target entity description: Eric Linden was an American stage and film actor active in the 1930s, often cast as sensitive or troubled young men in Hollywood dramas.
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A.
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
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B.
Alex D. Linz
Alex D. Linz is an American former child actor best known for starring in "Home Alone 3" and voicing young Tarzan in Disney's animated film "Tarzan" (1999).
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C.
Eric Gregg
Eric Gregg was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure in the National League and his participation in several high-profile postseason games.
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D.
Jeremy Adelman
Jeremy Adelman is a composer best known for creating music for television, including the series "Hart of Dixie."
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E.
Eric Sigler
Eric Sigler is a researcher known for co-authoring influential work in artificial intelligence and machine learning alongside Tom B. Brown.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| characterType |
sensitive young men
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troubled young men ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
film
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stage ⓘ |
| name | Eric Linden ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ah, Wilderness!
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Are These Our Children? ⓘ Big City Blues ⓘ The Crowd Roars ⓘ The Voice of the City ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| periodOfActivity | 1930s ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Eric Linden Description of subject: Eric Linden was an American stage and film actor active in the 1930s, often cast as sensitive or troubled young men in Hollywood dramas.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.