Gordon MacRae
E48300
American film actor
American singer
American stage actor
American television actor
actor
film actor
human
singer
stage actor
television actor
Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood film musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gordon MacRae canonical | 28 |
| W. Gordon MacRae | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379643 — 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: Gordon MacRae Context triple: [Curly McLain, portrayedBy, Gordon MacRae]
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A.
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby was an American singer and actor whose smooth baritone voice and laid-back style made him one of the most popular and influential entertainers of the 20th century.
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B.
Al Jolson
Al Jolson was a hugely popular early 20th-century American singer and actor, often called "The World's Greatest Entertainer," known for his powerful stage presence and pioneering work in sound films.
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C.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
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D.
Sam Jones
Sam Jones was a Hall of Fame shooting guard who won 10 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics during the 1950s and 1960s, making him one of the most decorated players in league history.
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E.
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and director renowned for his athletic, energetic style and innovative work in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain."
- 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: Gordon MacRae Target entity description: Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood film musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
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A.
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby was an American singer and actor whose smooth baritone voice and laid-back style made him one of the most popular and influential entertainers of the 20th century.
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B.
Al Jolson
Al Jolson was a hugely popular early 20th-century American singer and actor, often called "The World's Greatest Entertainer," known for his powerful stage presence and pioneering work in sound films.
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C.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
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D.
Sam Jones
Sam Jones was a Hall of Fame shooting guard who won 10 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics during the 1950s and 1960s, making him one of the most decorated players in league history.
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E.
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and director renowned for his athletic, energetic style and innovative work in classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Gordon MacRae Description of subject: Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer best known for his leading roles in classic Hollywood film musicals such as "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
W. Gordon MacRae
this entity surface form:
W. Gordon MacRae