Dub Taylor
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Dub Taylor was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in Westerns and supporting roles in film and television from the 1930s through the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dub Taylor canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T173331 — 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: Dub Taylor Context triple: [Tom Sawyer (1973 film), stars, Dub Taylor]
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A.
Jocelyn Howard
Jocelyn Howard is an American television and film actress best known as the daughter of filmmaker and former child star Ron Howard.
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B.
Tanita Strahan
Tanita Strahan is an American visual artist and the eldest daughter of former NFL star and television personality Michael Strahan.
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C.
Sean Taylor
Sean Taylor was a hard-hitting Pro Bowl safety for the Washington NFL franchise whose promising career was tragically cut short by his death in 2007.
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D.
Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston was an American silent film actress best known for her role opposite Douglas Fairbanks in the classic 1924 fantasy film "The Thief of Bagdad."
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E.
Alicia Nash
Alicia Nash was a Salvadoran-American physicist and mental health advocate best known as the devoted wife of mathematician John Nash, whose life with him was portrayed in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
- 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: Dub Taylor Target entity description: Dub Taylor was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in Westerns and supporting roles in film and television from the 1930s through the 1990s.
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A.
Jocelyn Howard
Jocelyn Howard is an American television and film actress best known as the daughter of filmmaker and former child star Ron Howard.
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B.
Tanita Strahan
Tanita Strahan is an American visual artist and the eldest daughter of former NFL star and television personality Michael Strahan.
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C.
Sean Taylor
Sean Taylor was a hard-hitting Pro Bowl safety for the Washington NFL franchise whose promising career was tragically cut short by his death in 2007.
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D.
Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston was an American silent film actress best known for her role opposite Douglas Fairbanks in the classic 1924 fantasy film "The Thief of Bagdad."
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E.
Alicia Nash
Alicia Nash was a Salvadoran-American physicist and mental health advocate best known as the devoted wife of mathematician John Nash, whose life with him was portrayed in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Western cinema
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entertainment ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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comedy ⓘ |
| hasPartInTheName | Taylor ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
distinctive comic timing
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frequent appearances in Western genre ⓘ prolific supporting performances ⓘ |
| notableFor |
prolific character roles in film and television
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supporting roles in Westerns ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Back to the Future Part III
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Bonnie and Clyde ⓘ Gunsmoke ⓘ Little House on the Prairie ⓘ Maverick ⓘ The Andy Griffith Show ⓘ The Wild Bunch ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American Western film tradition
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American television Western tradition ⓘ |
| portrayed |
bartenders in Westerns
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comic Western sidekicks ⓘ town drunks in Westerns ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Dub Taylor Description of subject: Dub Taylor was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in Westerns and supporting roles in film and television from the 1930s through the 1990s.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.