Lloyd Gough
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Lloyd Gough was an American character actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, whose career was notably impacted by being blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lloyd Gough canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4709114 — 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: Lloyd Gough Context triple: [Sunset Boulevard, starring, Lloyd Gough]
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A.
Ian Boldsworth
Ian Boldsworth is a British comedian, writer, and podcaster best known for his work in alternative comedy and shows like the paranormal podcast "The ParaPod."
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B.
Gordon Bottomley
Gordon Bottomley was an English poet and dramatist of the early 20th century, noted for his verse dramas and his role in the Georgian poetry movement.
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C.
Michael Elphick
Michael Elphick was an English actor known for his rugged, working-class roles in British film and television, including notable appearances in series like "Boon" and various acclaimed dramas.
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D.
Nigel Lockyer
Nigel Lockyer is a Canadian physicist known for his leadership in high-energy physics research, including serving as director of Fermilab and previously of TRIUMF.
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E.
Colin Moulding
Colin Moulding is an English bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the new wave band XTC.
- 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: Lloyd Gough Target entity description: Lloyd Gough was an American character actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, whose career was notably impacted by being blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
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A.
Ian Boldsworth
Ian Boldsworth is a British comedian, writer, and podcaster best known for his work in alternative comedy and shows like the paranormal podcast "The ParaPod."
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B.
Gordon Bottomley
Gordon Bottomley was an English poet and dramatist of the early 20th century, noted for his verse dramas and his role in the Georgian poetry movement.
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C.
Michael Elphick
Michael Elphick was an English actor known for his rugged, working-class roles in British film and television, including notable appearances in series like "Boon" and various acclaimed dramas.
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D.
Nigel Lockyer
Nigel Lockyer is a Canadian physicist known for his leadership in high-energy physics research, including serving as director of Fermilab and previously of TRIUMF.
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E.
Colin Moulding
Colin Moulding is an English bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the new wave band XTC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | aortic aneurysm ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-09-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1984-07-23 ⓘ |
| employer | major Hollywood studios ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama ⓘ film noir ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | Jewish American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic | career disrupted by blacklisting ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Hollywood blacklist
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McCarthy era blacklisting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
character roles
ⓘ
supporting roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All the King’s Men
NERFINISHED
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Sunset Boulevard NERFINISHED ⓘ The Front Page NERFINISHED ⓘ The Green Hornet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | House Un-American Activities Committee investigations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| politicalContext | McCarthyism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Karen Morley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | actress ⓘ |
| wasBlacklisted | true ⓘ |
| 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: Lloyd Gough Description of subject: Lloyd Gough was an American character actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film and television, whose career was notably impacted by being blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.