Leslie Howard
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Leslie Howard was a British actor and filmmaker best known for his role as Ashley Wilkes in the classic film "Gone with the Wind."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leslie Howard canonical | 62 |
| British actor Leslie Howard | 1 |
| Leslie Howard as Professor Horatio Smith | 1 |
| Leslie Howard as Sir Percy Blakeney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379774 — 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: Leslie Howard Context triple: [Gone with the Wind, starring, Leslie Howard]
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A.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
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B.
John Garfield
John Garfield was an American actor of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances in socially conscious films.
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C.
Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone was a British actor best known for his definitive film portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Leo Genn
Leo Genn was a British actor and barrister known for his distinguished, authoritative screen presence in mid-20th-century films.
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E.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
- 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: Leslie Howard Target entity description: Leslie Howard was a British actor and filmmaker best known for his role as Ashley Wilkes in the classic film "Gone with the Wind."
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A.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
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B.
John Garfield
John Garfield was an American actor of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances in socially conscious films.
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C.
Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone was a British actor best known for his definitive film portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Leo Genn
Leo Genn was a British actor and barrister known for his distinguished, authoritative screen presence in mid-20th-century films.
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E.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Leslie Howard Description of subject: Leslie Howard was a British actor and filmmaker best known for his role as Ashley Wilkes in the classic film "Gone with the Wind."
Referenced by (65)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.