Sidney Blackmer
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Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sidney Blackmer canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T173193 — 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: Sidney Blackmer Context triple: [High Society, starring, Sidney Blackmer]
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A.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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B.
Frederick H. Meyer
Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
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C.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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D.
Sidney Wicks
Sidney Wicks is a former American professional basketball player, best known as a four-time NBA All-Star forward in the 1970s, primarily with the Portland Trail Blazers.
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E.
Horace Newton Allen
Horace Newton Allen was an American medical missionary and diplomat who played a key role in introducing Western medicine to Korea in the late 19th century.
- 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: Sidney Blackmer Target entity description: Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
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A.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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B.
Frederick H. Meyer
Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
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C.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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D.
Sidney Wicks
Sidney Wicks is a former American professional basketball player, best known as a four-time NBA All-Star forward in the 1970s, primarily with the Portland Trail Blazers.
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E.
Horace Newton Allen
Horace Newton Allen was an American medical missionary and diplomat who played a key role in introducing Western medicine to Korea in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Broadway theater
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surface form:
Broadway theatre
Hollywood ⓘ
surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Come Back, Little Sheba ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral hemorrhage ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1895-07-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1973-10-06 ⓘ |
| familyName | Blackmer ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Sidney ⓘ |
| knownFor |
character roles in classic Hollywood cinema
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performance as Roman Castevet in Rosemary's Baby ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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stage ⓘ television ⓘ |
| memberOf | Actors' Equity Association ⓘ |
| militaryService |
United States Armed Forces in World War I
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surface form:
United States military in World War I
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| name | Sidney Blackmer self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Duel in the Sun
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Heidi (1937 film) ⓘ High Society ⓘ Little Caesar ⓘ Rosemary's Baby ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Salisbury, North Carolina
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surface form:
Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| politicalAffiliation |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| portrayed | Theodore Roosevelt ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
Salisbury, North Carolina ⓘ
surface form:
Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
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| spouse | Suzanne Kaaren ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1910s–1970s ⓘ |
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: Sidney Blackmer Description of subject: Sidney Blackmer was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for his character roles in classic Hollywood cinema, including his memorable performance in "Rosemary's Baby."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.