Sebastian Cabot
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Sebastian Cabot was a British actor best known for his distinctive voice and roles in film and television, including serving as the narrator of Disney’s "Winnie the Pooh" shorts and playing Mr. French on the TV series "Family Affair."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sebastian Cabot canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5043606 — 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: Sebastian Cabot Context triple: [Terror in a Texas Town, starring, Sebastian Cabot]
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A.
Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot was a 16th-century Venetian-English explorer and cartographer known for his voyages in search of Northwest and Northeast passages and for helping establish early English exploration and trade ventures.
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B.
John Moors Cabot
John Moors Cabot was an American diplomat and philanthropist from the prominent Cabot family, known for his service as a U.S. ambassador and benefactor to cultural and educational institutions.
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C.
Edward Martindel
Edward Martindel was an American stage and silent film actor active in the early 20th century.
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D.
John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian-born navigator and explorer, sailing under the English flag, best known for his late 15th-century voyages to North America that helped lay the groundwork for England’s claims in the New World.
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E.
Martin Frobisher
Martin Frobisher was a 16th-century English seafarer and privateer best known for his early Arctic voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia.
- 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: Sebastian Cabot Target entity description: Sebastian Cabot was a British actor best known for his distinctive voice and roles in film and television, including serving as the narrator of Disney’s "Winnie the Pooh" shorts and playing Mr. French on the TV series "Family Affair."
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A.
Sebastian Cabot
Sebastian Cabot was a 16th-century Venetian-English explorer and cartographer known for his voyages in search of Northwest and Northeast passages and for helping establish early English exploration and trade ventures.
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B.
John Moors Cabot
John Moors Cabot was an American diplomat and philanthropist from the prominent Cabot family, known for his service as a U.S. ambassador and benefactor to cultural and educational institutions.
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C.
Edward Martindel
Edward Martindel was an American stage and silent film actor active in the early 20th century.
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D.
John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian-born navigator and explorer, sailing under the English flag, best known for his late 15th-century voyages to North America that helped lay the groundwork for England’s claims in the New World.
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E.
Martin Frobisher
Martin Frobisher was a 16th-century English seafarer and privateer best known for his early Arctic voyages in search of a Northwest Passage to Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Charles Sebastian Thomas Cabot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Bagheera
NERFINISHED
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Giles French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1918-07-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1977-08-22 ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cabot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
animation
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family television ⓘ |
| givenName |
Charles
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Sebastian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Sebastian Cabot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | distinctive voice ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Checkmate
NERFINISHED
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Family Affair NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jungle Book NERFINISHED ⓘ The Time Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too NERFINISHED ⓘ Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
British Columbia
NERFINISHED
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Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ North Saanich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | narrator of Disney Winnie the Pooh shorts ⓘ |
| spouse | Kay Cabot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionRole |
Dr. Carl Hyatt
NERFINISHED
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Mr. French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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television ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1930s–1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sebastian Cabot Description of subject: Sebastian Cabot was a British actor best known for his distinctive voice and roles in film and television, including serving as the narrator of Disney’s "Winnie the Pooh" shorts and playing Mr. French on the TV series "Family Affair."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Terror in a Texas Town