Earnest Lee Hudson
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Earnest Lee Hudson is an American actor best known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the "Ghostbusters" film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Earnest Lee Hudson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12087542 — 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: Earnest Lee Hudson Context triple: [Ernie Hudson, birthName, Earnest Lee Hudson]
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A.
Horace Albert McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
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B.
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
William Fitzgerald Jenkins was an American science fiction and alternate history author best known under his pen name Murray Leinster, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction."
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C.
Harold Everett Greer
Harold Everett "Hal" Greer was an American Hall of Fame basketball guard best known for his stellar career with the Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.
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D.
Hurd Curtis Willett
Hurd Curtis Willett was an American meteorologist known for his influential work on atmospheric circulation and long-range weather forecasting.
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E.
Otis Pike
Otis Pike was an American Democratic congressman from New York known for his leadership in investigating U.S. intelligence agencies during the 1970s.
- 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: Earnest Lee Hudson Target entity description: Earnest Lee Hudson is an American actor best known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the "Ghostbusters" film series.
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A.
Horace Albert McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
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B.
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
William Fitzgerald Jenkins was an American science fiction and alternate history author best known under his pen name Murray Leinster, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction."
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C.
Harold Everett Greer
Harold Everett "Hal" Greer was an American Hall of Fame basketball guard best known for his stellar career with the Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA.
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D.
Hurd Curtis Willett
Hurd Curtis Willett was an American meteorologist known for his influential work on atmospheric circulation and long-range weather forecasting.
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E.
Otis Pike
Otis Pike was an American Democratic congressman from New York known for his leadership in investigating U.S. intelligence agencies during the 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| characterRole | Winston Zeddemore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-12-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Wayne State University
NERFINISHED
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Yale School of Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy films
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drama films ⓘ science fiction films ⓘ |
| givenName | Earnest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Ernie Hudson Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Ernie Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Congo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ghostbusters NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghostbusters II NERFINISHED ⓘ Ghostbusters: Afterlife NERFINISHED ⓘ Grace and Frankie NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Congeniality NERFINISHED ⓘ Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ The Family Business NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hand That Rocks the Cradle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jeannie Moore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Linda Kingsberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Earnest Lee Hudson Description of subject: Earnest Lee Hudson is an American actor best known for his role as Winston Zeddemore in the "Ghostbusters" film series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.