Gregory Hines
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Gregory Hines was an acclaimed American dancer, actor, and choreographer renowned for revitalizing tap dance and starring in numerous film, television, and stage productions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gregory Hines canonical | 28 |
| Gregory Oliver Hines | 2 |
| Gregory Hines as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206049 — 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: Gregory Hines Context triple: [Waiting to Exhale, starring, Gregory Hines]
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A.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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B.
Ted Shawn
Ted Shawn was a pioneering American modern dance choreographer and teacher who helped establish modern dance in the United States and co-founded the influential Denishawn company.
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C.
Joseph LaShelle
Joseph LaShelle was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for winning an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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D.
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire was an iconic American dancer, singer, and actor renowned for his elegant, innovative musical film performances and influential choreography in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
Sam Jones
Sam Jones was a Hall of Fame shooting guard who won 10 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics during the 1950s and 1960s, making him one of the most decorated players in league history.
- 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: Gregory Hines Target entity description: Gregory Hines was an acclaimed American dancer, actor, and choreographer renowned for revitalizing tap dance and starring in numerous film, television, and stage productions.
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A.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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B.
Ted Shawn
Ted Shawn was a pioneering American modern dance choreographer and teacher who helped establish modern dance in the United States and co-founded the influential Denishawn company.
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C.
Joseph LaShelle
Joseph LaShelle was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for winning an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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D.
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire was an iconic American dancer, singer, and actor renowned for his elegant, innovative musical film performances and influential choreography in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
Sam Jones
Sam Jones was a Hall of Fame shooting guard who won 10 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics during the 1950s and 1960s, making him one of the most decorated players in league history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Gregory Hines Description of subject: Gregory Hines was an acclaimed American dancer, actor, and choreographer renowned for revitalizing tap dance and starring in numerous film, television, and stage productions.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Gregory Oliver Hines
subject surface form:
Running Scared (1986 film)
subject surface form:
Running Scared (1986 film)
this entity surface form:
Gregory Hines as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
subject surface form:
Detective Ray Hughes
subject surface form:
Detective Ray Hughes
this entity surface form:
Gregory Oliver Hines