Richard Boone
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Richard Boone was an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, particularly as the star of the Western series "Have Gun – Will Travel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Boone canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042759 — 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: Richard Boone Context triple: [Winter Kills, castMember, Richard Boone]
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A.
Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart was an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including performances in "La Strada" and the TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
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B.
Paul Winfield
Paul Winfield was an American actor known for his powerful performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in works like "Sounder" and "The Terminator."
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C.
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn was a Mexican-American actor, painter, and writer best known for his Academy Award–winning film roles and his iconic performance in "Zorba the Greek."
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D.
John Gavin
John Gavin was an American film actor and diplomat best known for his leading roles in classic films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Psycho" and "Imitation of Life."
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E.
Richard Dix
Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
- 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: Richard Boone Target entity description: Richard Boone was an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, particularly as the star of the Western series "Have Gun – Will Travel."
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A.
Richard Basehart
Richard Basehart was an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including performances in "La Strada" and the TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea."
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B.
Paul Winfield
Paul Winfield was an American actor known for his powerful performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in works like "Sounder" and "The Terminator."
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C.
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn was a Mexican-American actor, painter, and writer best known for his Academy Award–winning film roles and his iconic performance in "Zorba the Greek."
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D.
John Gavin
John Gavin was an American film actor and diplomat best known for his leading roles in classic films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Psycho" and "Imitation of Life."
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E.
Richard Dix
Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cremated ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | throat cancer ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| dateOfBirth | 1917-06-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-01-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Boone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasFindAGraveId | 812 ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0001952 ⓘ |
| hasTVGuideId | 303 ⓘ |
| knownFor | tough authoritative roles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big Jake
NERFINISHED
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Dragnet NERFINISHED ⓘ Have Gun – Will Travel NERFINISHED ⓘ Hombre NERFINISHED ⓘ Medic NERFINISHED ⓘ Rio Conchos NERFINISHED ⓘ The Alamo NERFINISHED ⓘ The Richard Boone Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tall T NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
California
NERFINISHED
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Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
Florida
NERFINISHED
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St. Augustine NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| portrayed | Paladin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Florida
NERFINISHED
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Hawaii NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Claire McAloon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–1980 ⓘ |
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: Richard Boone Description of subject: Richard Boone was an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, particularly as the star of the Western series "Have Gun – Will Travel."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.