Charles McGraw
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Charles McGraw was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and classic Hollywood films, including notable appearances in movies like "The Killers" and "Spartacus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles McGraw canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1679148 — 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: Charles McGraw Context triple: [Spartacus (1960 film), castMember, Charles McGraw]
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A.
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, and actor best known for writing enduring jazz and pop standards such as "Stardust," "Georgia on My Mind," and "Heart and Soul."
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B.
Johnny Dodds
Johnny Dodds was an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader associated with the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes of the 1920s.
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C.
Joe Williams
Joe Williams was a renowned American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful baritone voice and celebrated recordings with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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D.
Dooley Wilson
Dooley Wilson was an American actor and singer best known for his iconic performance as Sam, the piano player who sings "As Time Goes By," in the classic film Casablanca.
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E.
Charlie Kelly
Charlie Kelly is a dim-witted yet oddly resourceful janitor and co-owner of Paddy’s Pub on the sitcom "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia," known for his chaotic behavior and bizarre schemes.
- 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: Charles McGraw Target entity description: Charles McGraw was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and classic Hollywood films, including notable appearances in movies like "The Killers" and "Spartacus."
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A.
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, and actor best known for writing enduring jazz and pop standards such as "Stardust," "Georgia on My Mind," and "Heart and Soul."
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B.
Johnny Dodds
Johnny Dodds was an influential early jazz clarinetist and bandleader associated with the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes of the 1920s.
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C.
Joe Williams
Joe Williams was a renowned American jazz and blues singer best known for his powerful baritone voice and celebrated recordings with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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D.
Dooley Wilson
Dooley Wilson was an American actor and singer best known for his iconic performance as Sam, the piano player who sings "As Time Goes By," in the classic film Casablanca.
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E.
Charlie Kelly
Charlie Kelly is a dim-witted yet oddly resourceful janitor and co-owner of Paddy’s Pub on the sitcom "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia," known for his chaotic behavior and bizarre schemes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | McGraw ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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television ⓘ |
| genre | film noir ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Charles McGraw self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | tough-guy roles in film noir ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Armored Car Robbery
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Hang 'Em High ⓘ His Kind of Woman ⓘ Spartacus (1960 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Spartacus
The Bridges at Toko-Ri ⓘ The Defiant Ones ⓘ The Killers ⓘ The Narrow Margin ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| portrayed | tough-guy characters ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Charles McGraw Description of subject: Charles McGraw was an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in film noir and classic Hollywood films, including notable appearances in movies like "The Killers" and "Spartacus."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Killers (1946 film)