Porter Hall
E456967
Porter Hall was an American character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porter Hall canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4623088 — 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: Porter Hall Context triple: [Ace in the Hole, starring, Porter Hall]
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Winthrop Hall
Winthrop Hall is a prominent heritage-listed ceremonial and event building on the University of Western Australia’s Crawley campus, known for its grand architecture and iconic clock tower.
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B.
Farnam Hall
Farnam Hall is one of the historic freshman dormitories on Yale University's Old Campus, known for its traditional collegiate Gothic architecture and central location.
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C.
Knox Hall
Knox Hall is an academic building on Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus that houses various departments and classrooms.
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Seabury Hall
Seabury Hall is one of the historic academic buildings on the Long Walk at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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E.
Greenspun Hall
Greenspun Hall is an academic building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, best known as the home of the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs and its journalism and media programs.
- 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: Porter Hall Target entity description: Porter Hall was an American character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Winthrop Hall
Winthrop Hall is a prominent heritage-listed ceremonial and event building on the University of Western Australia’s Crawley campus, known for its grand architecture and iconic clock tower.
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B.
Farnam Hall
Farnam Hall is one of the historic freshman dormitories on Yale University's Old Campus, known for its traditional collegiate Gothic architecture and central location.
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C.
Knox Hall
Knox Hall is an academic building on Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus that houses various departments and classrooms.
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D.
Seabury Hall
Seabury Hall is one of the historic academic buildings on the Long Walk at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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E.
Greenspun Hall
Greenspun Hall is an academic building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, best known as the home of the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs and its journalism and media programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsInFilm |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ |
| birthName | Clifford Porter Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-09-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1953-10-06 ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| familyName | Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| givenName | Clifford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0355867 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| name | Porter Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration |
Billy Wilder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Capra NERFINISHED ⓘ George Seaton NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo McCarey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ace in the Hole
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Double Indemnity NERFINISHED ⓘ Going My Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Miracle on 34th Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Clock NERFINISHED ⓘ The Postman Always Rings Twice NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thin Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacteristicRoles |
bureaucrats
ⓘ
suspicious authority figures ⓘ villains ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Gertrude Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfRole |
character roles
ⓘ
supporting roles ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Porter Hall Description of subject: Porter Hall was an American character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.