Leo Gordon
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Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leo Gordon canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986067 — 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: Leo Gordon Context triple: [The Big Operator, castMember, Leo Gordon]
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A.
Raymond Parks
Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
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B.
Luke Murray
Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
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C.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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D.
Lawrence Gordon
Lawrence Gordon is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood action, horror, and fantasy films, including the Hellboy series.
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E.
Gordon Malloy
Gordon Malloy is a wisecracking, skilled helmsman and loyal crew member aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
- 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: Leo Gordon Target entity description: Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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A.
Raymond Parks
Raymond Parks was an African American barber and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama, known for his early involvement in the NAACP and support of his wife Rosa Parks’ historic role in the civil rights movement.
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B.
Luke Murray
Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
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C.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
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D.
Lawrence Gordon
Lawrence Gordon is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood action, horror, and fantasy films, including the Hellboy series.
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E.
Gordon Malloy
Gordon Malloy is a wisecracking, skilled helmsman and loyal crew member aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Gordon ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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crime film ⓘ |
| givenName | Leo ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Leo Gordon ⓘ |
| notableFor | tough-guy roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Maverick (TV series)
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linked to:
Maverick
McLintock! ⓘ
linked to:
McLintock! (1963 film)
Riot in Cell Block 11 ⓘ The Big Heat ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacterType |
henchman
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outlaw ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Hollywood film industry
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linked to:
Hollywood
|
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: Leo Gordon Description of subject: Leo Gordon was an American character actor and screenwriter known for his tough-guy roles in numerous Westerns and crime films from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1963 film "The Haunted Palace")
subject linked to:
The Restless Breed (1957 film)