Wesley Addy
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Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wesley Addy canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T26685 — 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: Wesley Addy Context triple: [Celeste Holm, spouse, Wesley Addy]
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A.
John Carver
John Carver was a prominent early Pilgrim leader who became the first governor of Plymouth Colony after the Mayflower’s arrival in 1620.
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B.
Wes Wise
Wes Wise is an American journalist and politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, in the 1970s.
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C.
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."
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D.
Tessa Menzies
Tessa Menzies is a child of California politician and governor Gavin Newsom.
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E.
Rory John Gates
Rory John Gates is the only son of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and philanthropist Melinda French Gates, known for maintaining a relatively private life despite his high-profile family background.
- 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: Wesley Addy Target entity description: Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
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A.
John Carver
John Carver was a prominent early Pilgrim leader who became the first governor of Plymouth Colony after the Mayflower’s arrival in 1620.
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B.
Wes Wise
Wes Wise is an American journalist and politician who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, in the 1970s.
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C.
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."
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D.
Tessa Menzies
Tessa Menzies is a child of California politician and governor Gavin Newsom.
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E.
Rory John Gates
Rory John Gates is the only son of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and philanthropist Melinda French Gates, known for maintaining a relatively private life despite his high-profile family background.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-08-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-12-31 ⓘ |
| employer |
Broadway theatre
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linked to:
Broadway
|
| familyName | Addy ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Wesley ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Wesley Addy ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
stage performances on Broadway
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supporting roles in film ⓘ supporting roles on television ⓘ |
| notableWork | Kiss Me Deadly ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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linked to:
Omaha, Nebraska
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| placeOfDeath |
Danbury, Connecticut, United States
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linked to:
Danbury, Connecticut
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| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
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linked to:
New York City
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Celeste Holm ⓘ |
| workedOn | Kiss Me Deadly ⓘ |
| workedWith | Robert Aldrich ⓘ |
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: Wesley Addy Description of subject: Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.