Cliff Potts
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Cliff Potts is an American actor best known for his role in the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running" and for numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cliff Potts canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3757442 — 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: Cliff Potts Context triple: [Silent Running, starring, Cliff Potts]
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A.
Cliff Booth
Cliff Booth is a fictional World War II veteran and stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," known for his stoic demeanor, combat skills, and loyal partnership with actor Rick Dalton.
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B.
Cliff Clavin
Cliff Clavin is a know-it-all, trivia-obsessed mailman and bar regular on the sitcom "Cheers," known for his long-winded, often dubious explanations.
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C.
Cliff Unger
Cliff Unger is a central character in the video game "Death Stranding," portrayed as a tragic former soldier whose emotional connection to his child drives much of the game's narrative.
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D.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
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E.
Frank Reynolds
Frank Reynolds is a scheming, morally bankrupt businessman and the depraved, chaos-loving father figure of the gang in the sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
- 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: Cliff Potts Target entity description: Cliff Potts is an American actor best known for his role in the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running" and for numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Cliff Booth
Cliff Booth is a fictional World War II veteran and stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's film "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," known for his stoic demeanor, combat skills, and loyal partnership with actor Rick Dalton.
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B.
Cliff Clavin
Cliff Clavin is a know-it-all, trivia-obsessed mailman and bar regular on the sitcom "Cheers," known for his long-winded, often dubious explanations.
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C.
Cliff Unger
Cliff Unger is a central character in the video game "Death Stranding," portrayed as a tragic former soldier whose emotional connection to his child drives much of the game's narrative.
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D.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
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E.
Frank Reynolds
Frank Reynolds is a scheming, morally bankrupt businessman and the depraved, chaos-loving father figure of the gang in the sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| castMember | Cliff Potts self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
feature film
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television series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s
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role in the 1972 film Silent Running ⓘ |
| notableWork | Silent Running ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
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surface form:
American film industry
American television industry ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1972 ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Cliff Potts Description of subject: Cliff Potts is an American actor best known for his role in the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running" and for numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Silent Running