C. Henry Gordon
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C. Henry Gordon was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains and authority figures in Hollywood films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C. Henry Gordon canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12834160 — 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: C. Henry Gordon Context triple: [Night Flight (1933), stars, C. Henry Gordon]
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A.
Charles Goodell
Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
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B.
E. V. Cunningham
E. V. Cunningham was the crime-fiction pen name of American novelist Howard Fast, under which he wrote a series of popular mystery and detective novels.
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C.
C. H. Little
C. H. Little is a person known primarily for sharing the surname "Little" as a notable bearer, though specific widely recognized biographical details about them are not well documented.
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D.
Arthur Heber Browne
Arthur Heber Browne was an Anglican clergyman who served as a bishop, notably in the early 20th century.
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E.
Guyton Alston
Guyton Alston was a key founding figure behind the prominent U.S. law firm Alston & Bird.
- 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: C. Henry Gordon Target entity description: C. Henry Gordon was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains and authority figures in Hollywood films.
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A.
Charles Goodell
Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
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B.
E. V. Cunningham
E. V. Cunningham was the crime-fiction pen name of American novelist Howard Fast, under which he wrote a series of popular mystery and detective novels.
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C.
C. H. Little
C. H. Little is a person known primarily for sharing the surname "Little" as a notable bearer, though specific widely recognized biographical details about them are not well documented.
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D.
Arthur Heber Browne
Arthur Heber Browne was an Anglican clergyman who served as a bishop, notably in the early 20th century.
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E.
Guyton Alston
Guyton Alston was a key founding figure behind the prominent U.S. law firm Alston & Bird.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American cinema
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Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employedBy | Hollywood film studios ⓘ |
| era |
Classical Hollywood cinema
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linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
|
| genre |
adventure film
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crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| name | C. Henry Gordon ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
authoritative demeanor
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suave screen presence ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayals of authority figures
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portrayals of suave villains ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Madame X
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The Big Gamble ⓘ The Big House ⓘ The Charge of the Light Brigade ⓘ The Devil-Doll ⓘ The Garden of Allah ⓘ
linked to:
The Garden of Allah (novel)
The Gay Divorcee ⓘ The Last Days of Pompeii ⓘ The Lives of a Bengal Lancer ⓘ The Mask of Fu Manchu ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
Golden Age of Hollywood
ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
|
| portrayed |
criminal masterminds
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foreign dignitaries ⓘ military officers ⓘ police officials ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| typeOfRole |
authority figure
ⓘ
villain ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
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: C. Henry Gordon Description of subject: C. Henry Gordon was an American character actor of the 1930s known for his frequent portrayals of suave villains and authority figures in Hollywood films.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.