Lock Martin
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Lock Martin was an American actor and former doorman best known for playing the towering robot Gort in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lock Martin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5224497 — 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: Lock Martin Context triple: [The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film), starredActor, Lock Martin]
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A.
Brian Rogers
Brian Rogers is a film producer best known for his work on the 2014 reboot of the Godzilla franchise.
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B.
Michael D. McDonough
Michael D. McDonough is an American local government official who serves as the mayor of Raytown, Missouri.
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C.
Timothy J. Roemer
Timothy J. Roemer is an American politician and diplomat, a former U.S. congressman from Indiana who later served as U.S. Ambassador to India.
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D.
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is an American foreign policy expert, author, and editor who serves as editor-in-chief of the influential journal Foreign Affairs.
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E.
Michael L. Kurtz
Michael L. Kurtz is an American historian and author known for his research and writings on modern U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- 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: Lock Martin Target entity description: Lock Martin was an American actor and former doorman best known for playing the towering robot Gort in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951).
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A.
Brian Rogers
Brian Rogers is a film producer best known for his work on the 2014 reboot of the Godzilla franchise.
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B.
Michael D. McDonough
Michael D. McDonough is an American local government official who serves as the mayor of Raytown, Missouri.
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C.
Timothy J. Roemer
Timothy J. Roemer is an American politician and diplomat, a former U.S. congressman from Indiana who later served as U.S. Ambassador to India.
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D.
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan is an American foreign policy expert, author, and editor who serves as editor-in-chief of the influential journal Foreign Affairs.
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E.
Michael L. Kurtz
Michael L. Kurtz is an American historian and author known for his research and writings on modern U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century film ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
ⓘ
linked to:
TCL Chinese Theatre
|
| familyName | Martin ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Lock ⓘ |
| hasRole | robot character performer ⓘ |
| height | very tall ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing the robot Gort in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| name | Lock Martin ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)
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linked to:
The Day the Earth Stood Still
|
| notableWork | The Day the Earth Stood Still ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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doorman ⓘ film actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" ⓘ |
| portrayed | Gort ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| 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: Lock Martin Description of subject: Lock Martin was an American actor and former doorman best known for playing the towering robot Gort in the classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.