Howard Duff
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Howard Duff was an American actor known for his work in film, radio, and television, including notable roles in classic noir and mid-20th-century dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Duff canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008790 — 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: Howard Duff Context triple: [Kramer vs. Kramer, castMember, Howard Duff]
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A.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
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B.
Warren William
Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
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C.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
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D.
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. was an American actor best known for his acclaimed stage and screen portrayals of Mark Twain and numerous character roles in film and television.
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E.
Joseph Aloysius Dwan
Joseph Aloysius Dwan, better known as Allan Dwan, was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer active from the silent era through the golden age of Hollywood.
- 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: Howard Duff Target entity description: Howard Duff was an American actor known for his work in film, radio, and television, including notable roles in classic noir and mid-20th-century dramas.
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A.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
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B.
Warren William
Warren William was an American stage and film actor of the 1930s, best known for his suave, often morally ambiguous leading and supporting roles in Hollywood pre-Code dramas and mysteries.
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C.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
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D.
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr.
Harold Rowe Holbrook Jr. was an American actor best known for his acclaimed stage and screen portrayals of Mark Twain and numerous character roles in film and television.
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E.
Joseph Aloysius Dwan
Joseph Aloysius Dwan, better known as Allan Dwan, was a pioneering Canadian-born American film director and producer active from the silent era through the golden age of Hollywood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Howard Duff Description of subject: Howard Duff was an American actor known for his work in film, radio, and television, including notable roles in classic noir and mid-20th-century dramas.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.