Hugh Hurd
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Hugh Hurd was an American actor and civil rights activist best known for his lead role in John Cassavetes’ groundbreaking independent film "Shadows."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hugh Hurd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11202445 — 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)
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Target entity: Hugh Hurd Context triple: [Shadows, castMember, Hugh Hurd]
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A.
Ben Demaree
Ben Demaree is a cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work on low-budget genre films, including fantasy and science fiction titles.
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B.
Peter Diller
Peter Diller is one of the children of pioneering American stand-up comedian and actress Phyllis Diller.
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C.
John Seitz
John Seitz was an American cinematographer renowned for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, particularly in film noir and science fiction.
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D.
Don Hahn
Don Hahn is an American film producer best known for overseeing several of Disney’s most acclaimed animated features, including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.
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E.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
- 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: Hugh Hurd Target entity description: Hugh Hurd was an American actor and civil rights activist best known for his lead role in John Cassavetes’ groundbreaking independent film "Shadows."
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A.
Ben Demaree
Ben Demaree is a cinematographer and filmmaker known for his work on low-budget genre films, including fantasy and science fiction titles.
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B.
Peter Diller
Peter Diller is one of the children of pioneering American stand-up comedian and actress Phyllis Diller.
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C.
John Seitz
John Seitz was an American cinematographer renowned for his influential work in classic Hollywood cinema, particularly in film noir and science fiction.
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D.
Don Hahn
Don Hahn is an American film producer best known for overseeing several of Disney’s most acclaimed animated features, including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.
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E.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American cinema
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American civil rights activism ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
performing arts
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social justice ⓘ |
| genre | independent film ⓘ |
| knownFor | lead role in John Cassavetes’ film "Shadows" ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Hugh Hurd ⓘ |
| notability |
civil rights advocacy through the arts
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pioneering African-American presence in independent film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Shadows ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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civil rights activist ⓘ |
| typeOfActivism | civil rights activism ⓘ |
| workedWith | John Cassavetes ⓘ |
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: Hugh Hurd Description of subject: Hugh Hurd was an American actor and civil rights activist best known for his lead role in John Cassavetes’ groundbreaking independent film "Shadows."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.