Richard Egan
E1020646
Richard Egan was an American film and television actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in 1950s and 1960s Hollywood productions such as "A Summer Place" and "Pollyanna."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Egan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12108264 — 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: Richard Egan Context triple: [Bright Victory, castMember, Richard Egan]
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A.
Richard Egan
Richard Egan was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of data storage giant EMC Corporation and for serving as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
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B.
David Egan
David Egan is a film editor known for his work on animated features such as DC League of Super-Pets.
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C.
Bob Egan
Bob Egan is an American pedal steel guitarist best known for his work with the alternative rock band Wilco and later with Blue Rodeo.
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D.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara was an American attorney best known for being one of the later husbands of Hungarian-American socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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E.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
- 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: Richard Egan Target entity description: Richard Egan was an American film and television actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in 1950s and 1960s Hollywood productions such as "A Summer Place" and "Pollyanna."
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A.
Richard Egan
Richard Egan was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of data storage giant EMC Corporation and for serving as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
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B.
David Egan
David Egan is a film editor known for his work on animated features such as DC League of Super-Pets.
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C.
Bob Egan
Bob Egan is an American pedal steel guitarist best known for his work with the alternative rock band Wilco and later with Blue Rodeo.
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D.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara was an American attorney best known for being one of the later husbands of Hungarian-American socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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E.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | prostate cancer ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
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University of San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Egan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | instructor ⓘ |
| name | Richard Egan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | rugged leading-man roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Summer Place
NERFINISHED
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Capitol NERFINISHED ⓘ Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Esther and the King NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Me Tender NERFINISHED ⓘ Pollyanna NERFINISHED ⓘ Redigo NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Cities of Gold NERFINISHED ⓘ Slaughter on 10th Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ The 300 Spartans NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Cube NERFINISHED ⓘ The Revolt of Mamie Stover NERFINISHED ⓘ The View from Pompey’s Head NERFINISHED ⓘ Underwater! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Republican Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Patricia Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfDeath | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taughtSubject | speech ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ |
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: Richard Egan Description of subject: Richard Egan was an American film and television actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in 1950s and 1960s Hollywood productions such as "A Summer Place" and "Pollyanna."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.