Dennis Hoey
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Dennis Hoey was a British actor best known for playing Inspector Lestrade in the Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series of the 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Hoey canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4330185 — 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: Dennis Hoey Context triple: [Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, stars, Dennis Hoey]
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A.
Dennis Hull
Dennis Hull is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played primarily for the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL and is the younger brother of Hall of Famer Bobby Hull.
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B.
David Sills
David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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C.
Greg Hirsch
Greg Hirsch is a bumbling yet opportunistic young relative of the Roy family in the television series "Succession," known for his awkward social skills and surprising knack for survival in the corporate power struggle.
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D.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Dennis Shaw
Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
- 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: Dennis Hoey Target entity description: Dennis Hoey was a British actor best known for playing Inspector Lestrade in the Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series of the 1940s.
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A.
Dennis Hull
Dennis Hull is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played primarily for the Chicago Black Hawks in the NHL and is the younger brother of Hall of Famer Bobby Hull.
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B.
David Sills
David Sills was an American jurist and former mayor of Irvine, California, who later served as the presiding justice of the California Court of Appeal.
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C.
Greg Hirsch
Greg Hirsch is a bumbling yet opportunistic young relative of the Roy family in the television series "Succession," known for his awkward social skills and surprising knack for survival in the corporate power struggle.
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D.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Dennis Shaw
Dennis Shaw is a former American football quarterback who starred at San Diego State before playing in the NFL, most notably for the Buffalo Bills.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Dennis Hoey Description of subject: Dennis Hoey was a British actor best known for playing Inspector Lestrade in the Universal Pictures Sherlock Holmes film series of the 1940s.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.