Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson
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Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson is the tough, doomed ex-con at the center of the 1949 film noir "Criss Cross," whose obsessive love and involvement in a heist drive the movie’s tragic plot.
All labels observed (1)
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| Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21398812 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson Context triple: [Criss Cross, leadActorRole, Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson]
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Burt Lancaster as McIntosh
Burt Lancaster as McIntosh is the seasoned, world-weary Army scout who serves as the pragmatic and morally complex guide through the brutal frontier conflict in the 1972 Western film "Ulzana's Raid."
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Gregory Peck as Andrew Jorgenson
Gregory Peck as Andrew Jorgenson is the dignified, old-guard industrialist who serves as the moral and emotional counterpoint to corporate raider Lawrence Garfield in the film "Other People’s Money."
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C.
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
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D.
Lee Marvin as Col. Bartlett
Lee Marvin as Col. Bartlett is a commanding, battle-hardened World War II officer characterized by his tough, no-nonsense leadership in the war film "Attack!".
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E.
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele is the intense, world-weary screenwriter protagonist whose volatile charm and simmering menace drive the dark romantic tension and psychological ambiguity at the heart of the film.
- 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: Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson Target entity description: Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson is the tough, doomed ex-con at the center of the 1949 film noir "Criss Cross," whose obsessive love and involvement in a heist drive the movie’s tragic plot.
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A.
Burt Lancaster as McIntosh
Burt Lancaster as McIntosh is the seasoned, world-weary Army scout who serves as the pragmatic and morally complex guide through the brutal frontier conflict in the 1972 Western film "Ulzana's Raid."
-
B.
Gregory Peck as Andrew Jorgenson
Gregory Peck as Andrew Jorgenson is the dignified, old-guard industrialist who serves as the moral and emotional counterpoint to corporate raider Lawrence Garfield in the film "Other People’s Money."
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C.
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey
Lloyd Bridges as Steve McCroskey is the harried, increasingly frazzled air traffic control supervisor whose escalating declarations about what he’s “picked the wrong week” to quit provide one of the running gags in the disaster-movie spoof Airplane!.
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D.
Lee Marvin as Col. Bartlett
Lee Marvin as Col. Bartlett is a commanding, battle-hardened World War II officer characterized by his tough, no-nonsense leadership in the war film "Attack!".
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E.
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele
Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele is the intense, world-weary screenwriter protagonist whose volatile charm and simmering menace drive the dark romantic tension and psychological ambiguity at the heart of the film.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.