Bob Kortman
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Bob Kortman was an American character actor best known for his frequent roles as a rugged heavy or villain in numerous Western films during the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Kortman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8607423 — 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: Bob Kortman Context triple: [The Devil Horse, hasCastMember, Bob Kortman]
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A.
Larry Kellner
Larry Kellner is an American business executive best known for leading Continental Airlines as its chief executive officer.
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B.
Barry Kroeger
Barry Kroeger was an American character actor known for his distinctive villainous roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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C.
Barry Krost
Barry Krost is a film and television producer best known for his work on the acclaimed Tina Turner biographical film "What's Love Got to Do with It."
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D.
Bob Suter
Bob Suter was an American defenseman best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and later a prominent youth hockey coach and scout.
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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: Bob Kortman Target entity description: Bob Kortman was an American character actor best known for his frequent roles as a rugged heavy or villain in numerous Western films during the early 20th century.
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A.
Larry Kellner
Larry Kellner is an American business executive best known for leading Continental Airlines as its chief executive officer.
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B.
Barry Kroeger
Barry Kroeger was an American character actor known for his distinctive villainous roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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C.
Barry Krost
Barry Krost is a film and television producer best known for his work on the acclaimed Tina Turner biographical film "What's Love Got to Do with It."
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D.
Bob Suter
Bob Suter was an American defenseman best known as a member of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and later a prominent youth hockey coach and scout.
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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 (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | early 20th century American cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| familyName | Kortman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | motion pictures ⓘ |
| genre | Western film ⓘ |
| givenName | Bob ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
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linked to:
Hollywood
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Bob Kortman ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying rugged heavies and villains in Westerns ⓘ |
| notableRoleType |
heavy
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villain ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Bob Kortman Description of subject: Bob Kortman was an American character actor best known for his frequent roles as a rugged heavy or villain in numerous Western films during the early 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.