Harry H. Corbett
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Harry H. Corbett was an English actor best known for his role as Harold Steptoe in the classic BBC sitcom "Steptoe and Son."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry H. Corbett canonical | 8 |
| Harry Henry Corbett | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659264 — 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: Harry H. Corbett Context triple: [Jabberwocky, starring, Harry H. Corbett]
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A.
John Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, and writer best known for creating the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage.
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B.
Jim Backus
Jim Backus was an American actor and voice artist best known for voicing the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and portraying Thurston Howell III on the television series "Gilligan's Island."
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C.
Bob McFadden
Bob McFadden was an American voice actor and impressionist known for his work in animated television specials and cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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D.
M. Emmet Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh is an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including memorable roles in movies like "Blade Runner," "Blood Simple," and "Raising Arizona."
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E.
Garth Algar
Garth Algar is a shy, nerdy, and endearingly awkward best friend and co-host to Wayne Campbell in the comedy franchise "Wayne's World."
- 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: Harry H. Corbett Target entity description: Harry H. Corbett was an English actor best known for his role as Harold Steptoe in the classic BBC sitcom "Steptoe and Son."
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A.
John McIntire
John McIntire was an American character actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in Western films and television, as well as voice work in classic Disney animated features.
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B.
John Barry Humphries
John Barry Humphries was an Australian comedian, actor, satirist, and writer best known for creating the flamboyant character Dame Edna Everage.
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C.
Jim Backus
Jim Backus was an American actor and voice artist best known for voicing the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and portraying Thurston Howell III on the television series "Gilligan's Island."
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D.
Bob McFadden
Bob McFadden was an American voice actor and impressionist known for his work in animated television specials and cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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E.
M. Emmet Walsh
M. Emmet Walsh is an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including memorable roles in movies like "Blade Runner," "Blood Simple," and "Raising Arizona."
- 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: Harry H. Corbett Description of subject: Harry H. Corbett was an English actor best known for his role as Harold Steptoe in the classic BBC sitcom "Steptoe and Son."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harry H. Corbett