Trevor Howard
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Trevor Howard was a distinguished English film and stage actor best known for his roles in classic films such as "Brief Encounter" and "The Third Man."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trevor Howard canonical | 37 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2383017 — 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: Trevor Howard Context triple: [Trevor, hasGivenNameBearer, Trevor Howard]
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A.
Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding was a British film and stage actor best known for his roles in 1940s–1950s British cinema and for his high-profile marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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B.
Jack Hawkins
Jack Hawkins was a distinguished British actor known for his commanding presence in mid-20th-century war and historical films.
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C.
Richard Todd
Richard Todd was an Irish-born British actor best known for his roles in classic war films such as "The Dam Busters" and "The Longest Day."
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D.
George Powell
George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
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E.
Colin Clive
Colin Clive was a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of Dr. Henry Frankenstein in the classic 1930s horror films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein."
- 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: Trevor Howard Target entity description: Trevor Howard was a distinguished English film and stage actor best known for his roles in classic films such as "Brief Encounter" and "The Third Man."
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A.
Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding was a British film and stage actor best known for his roles in 1940s–1950s British cinema and for his high-profile marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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B.
Jack Hawkins
Jack Hawkins was a distinguished British actor known for his commanding presence in mid-20th-century war and historical films.
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C.
Richard Todd
Richard Todd was an Irish-born British actor best known for his roles in classic war films such as "The Dam Busters" and "The Longest Day."
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D.
George Powell
George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
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E.
Colin Clive
Colin Clive was a British actor best known for his iconic portrayal of Dr. Henry Frankenstein in the classic 1930s horror films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Trevor Howard Description of subject: Trevor Howard was a distinguished English film and stage actor best known for his roles in classic films such as "Brief Encounter" and "The Third Man."
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Operation Crossbow"
subject linked to:
Battle of Britain (film)
subject linked to:
film "Odette" (1950)
subject linked to:
The Charge of the Light Brigade