Charles Paton
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Charles Paton was a British character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in stage and film, including appearances in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent era work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Paton canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3884371 — 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: Charles Paton Context triple: [Blackmail (1929 film), stars, Charles Paton]
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A.
George Porter
George Porter was a British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the field of flash photolysis and the study of very fast chemical reactions.
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B.
John Giddings
John Giddings is a British music promoter best known for revitalizing and running the modern Isle of Wight Festival.
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C.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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D.
Louis Payne
Louis Payne was an American actor known for his roles in early 20th-century silent films.
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E.
Asa Melvin
Asa Melvin was a young American soldier from Concord, Massachusetts, who died in the Civil War and is honored by the Melvin Memorial.
- 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: Charles Paton Target entity description: Charles Paton was a British character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in stage and film, including appearances in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent era work.
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A.
George Porter
George Porter was a British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the field of flash photolysis and the study of very fast chemical reactions.
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B.
John Giddings
John Giddings is a British music promoter best known for revitalizing and running the modern Isle of Wight Festival.
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C.
Joseph McNeil
Joseph McNeil is an American civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who helped spark the sit-in movement against racial segregation in the United States.
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D.
Louis Payne
Louis Payne was an American actor known for his roles in early 20th-century silent films.
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E.
Asa Melvin
Asa Melvin was a young American soldier from Concord, Massachusetts, who died in the Civil War and is honored by the Melvin Memorial.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ person ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
British silent films
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silent films ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
motion picture
ⓘ
stage performance ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| knownFor | supporting roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent-era work ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
character roles
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supporting roles in early 20th-century British cinema ⓘ supporting roles in early 20th-century British theatre ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| roleType |
character roles
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supporting ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Charles Paton Description of subject: Charles Paton was a British character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in stage and film, including appearances in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent era work.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.