Lew Ayres
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Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lew Ayres canonical | 29 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T464652 — 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: Lew Ayres Context triple: [Ginger Rogers, spouse, Lew Ayres]
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A.
Joseph Cotten
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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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.
Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda was an acclaimed American film and stage actor known for his portrayals of principled, quietly heroic characters in classic films such as "12 Angry Men" and "On Golden Pond."
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D.
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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E.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
- 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: Lew Ayres Target entity description: Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
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A.
Joseph Cotten
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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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.
Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda was an acclaimed American film and stage actor known for his portrayals of principled, quietly heroic characters in classic films such as "12 Angry Men" and "On Golden Pond."
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D.
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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E.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lew Ayres Description of subject: Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
earlier non-musical State Fair (1933 film)
subject linked to:
These Glamour Girls (1939 film)
subject linked to:
The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931 film)