Tony de Corti
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Tony de Corti, better known as Iron Eyes Cody, was an American actor famous for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and a landmark anti-pollution public service announcement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tony de Corti canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392551 — 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: Tony de Corti Context triple: [Iron Eyes Cody, alsoKnownAs, Tony de Corti]
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A.
Anthony Rota
Anthony Rota is a Canadian Liberal politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the 43rd Canadian Parliament.
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B.
Antonio D'Amico
Antonio D'Amico is an Italian fashion designer best known as the longtime romantic partner of Gianni Versace and a designer within the Versace fashion house.
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C.
Noel Zancanella
Noel Zancanella is an American songwriter and record producer known for his work on major pop and rock hits, including collaborations with OneRepublic.
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D.
Al Martino
Al Martino was an American traditional pop and easy listening singer best known for hits like "Here in My Heart" and for playing Johnny Fontane in the film "The Godfather."
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E.
Paul Piana
Paul Piana is an American rock climber best known for pioneering the first free ascent of El Capitan’s Salathé Wall in Yosemite, a landmark achievement in big-wall free climbing.
- 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: Tony de Corti Target entity description: Tony de Corti, better known as Iron Eyes Cody, was an American actor famous for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and a landmark anti-pollution public service announcement.
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A.
Anthony Rota
Anthony Rota is a Canadian Liberal politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the 43rd Canadian Parliament.
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B.
Antonio D'Amico
Antonio D'Amico is an Italian fashion designer best known as the longtime romantic partner of Gianni Versace and a designer within the Versace fashion house.
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C.
Noel Zancanella
Noel Zancanella is an American songwriter and record producer known for his work on major pop and rock hits, including collaborations with OneRepublic.
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D.
Al Martino
Al Martino was an American traditional pop and easy listening singer best known for hits like "Here in My Heart" and for playing Johnny Fontane in the film "The Godfather."
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E.
Paul Piana
Paul Piana is an American rock climber best known for pioneering the first free ascent of El Capitan’s Salathé Wall in Yosemite, a landmark achievement in big-wall free climbing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmentalist icon
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ public figure ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Hollywood film industry
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linked to:
United States entertainment industry
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| alsoKnownAs | Iron Eyes Cody ⓘ |
| birthName | Espera Oscar de Corti ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | Italian-American ⓘ |
| famousFor | environmental public service announcement about pollution ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | Western films ⓘ |
| hasPublicImageAs | Native American environmental advocate icon ⓘ |
| industry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| knownAs |
“Crying Indian” from anti-pollution PSA
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linked to:
"Crying Indian"
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appearing in a landmark anti-pollution public service announcement
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portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork | “Crying Indian” anti-pollution PSA ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| portrayedEthnicity | Native American ⓘ |
| portrayedRoleType | Native American characters ⓘ |
| stageName | Iron Eyes Cody ⓘ |
| usedStagePersonaAs | Native American man ⓘ |
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: Tony de Corti Description of subject: Tony de Corti, better known as Iron Eyes Cody, was an American actor famous for portraying Native American characters in Hollywood films and a landmark anti-pollution public service announcement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.