Noah Beery
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Noah Beery was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his robust presence in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Noah Beery canonical | 9 |
| Noah Beery Sr. | 7 |
| Noah Beery Jr. | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T120123 — 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: Noah Beery Context triple: [The Mark of Zorro, stars, Noah Beery]
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A.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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B.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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C.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor and producer, known for his roles in adventure films and as the son of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks.
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D.
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was a legendary Italian-born silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s, famed for roles in films like "The Sheik" and "Blood and Sand."
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E.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and screenwriter, famed for his swashbuckling roles in early Hollywood classics like "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bagdad."
- 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: Noah Beery Target entity description: Noah Beery was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his robust presence in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
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A.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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B.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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C.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was an American actor and producer, known for his roles in adventure films and as the son of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks.
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D.
Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino was a legendary Italian-born silent film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s, famed for roles in films like "The Sheik" and "Blood and Sand."
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E.
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks was a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and screenwriter, famed for his swashbuckling roles in early Hollywood classics like "The Mark of Zorro" and "The Thief of Bagdad."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child |
Noah Beery
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Noah Beery Jr.
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1882-01-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1946-04-01 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Beery ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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adventure film ⓘ |
| givenName | Noah ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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theatre ⓘ |
| name | Noah Beery self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
robust screen presence
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villainous roles in Westerns ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beau Geste
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The Mark of Zorro ⓘ The Sea Hawk ⓘ The Spoilers ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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surface form:
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
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| placeOfDeath |
Beverly Hills, California, United States
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surface form:
Beverly Hills, California, United States of America
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| residence | Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Wallace Beery ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaret Gibson ⓘ |
| workedIn |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| yearsActive | early 1900s–1940s ⓘ |
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: Noah Beery Description of subject: Noah Beery was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his robust presence in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Noah Beery Jr.
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Noah Beery Sr.
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Noah Beery Sr.
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Noah Beery Sr.
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Noah Beery Jr.
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Noah Beery
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Noah Beery Jr.
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Noah Beery Jr.
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Noah Beery Sr.
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Noah Beery Sr.
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Noah Beery Sr.
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Noah Beery Sr.