Howard St. John
E456973
Howard St. John was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard St. John canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4623185 — 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: Howard St. John Context triple: [One, Two, Three, starring, Howard St. John]
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A.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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B.
Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
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C.
John Henshaw
John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
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D.
Robert Livermore
Robert Livermore was a 19th-century Californian rancher and early settler whose name was later given to the city of Livermore, California.
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E.
Henry Dailey
Henry Dailey is the retired horse trainer who becomes the mentor and caretaker of the wild stallion and its young rider in Walter Farley’s "The Black Stallion" series.
- 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: Howard St. John Target entity description: Howard St. John was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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A.
Theodore St. John
Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
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B.
Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century, known for his often idiosyncratic and independent judicial opinions.
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C.
John Henshaw
John Henshaw is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including a prominent part in the Ken Loach-directed film "Looking for Eric."
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D.
Robert Livermore
Robert Livermore was a 19th-century Californian rancher and early settler whose name was later given to the city of Livermore, California.
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E.
Henry Dailey
Henry Dailey is the retired horse trainer who becomes the mentor and caretaker of the wild stallion and its young rider in Walter Farley’s "The Black Stallion" series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century film
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20th-century television ⓘ 20th-century theater ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | St. John ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Howard St. John ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in film
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supporting roles in television ⓘ supporting roles in theater ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ |
| performingArtsDiscipline |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Howard St. John Description of subject: Howard St. John was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.