Noah Beery Jr.
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Noah Beery Jr. was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including his role as Joseph "Rocky" Rockford on the series "The Rockford Files."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Noah Beery Jr. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5349615 — 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: Noah Beery Jr. Context triple: [The Fastest Gun Alive, starring, Noah Beery Jr.]
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Noah Beery
Noah Beery was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his robust presence in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
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B.
Harold Lloyd Jr.
Harold Lloyd Jr. was an American actor and singer, best known as the son of silent film comedy star Harold Lloyd and for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television.
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C.
Andy Devine
Andy Devine was an American character actor best known for his distinctive raspy voice and roles in numerous Western films and the television series "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok."
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D.
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery was an American actor best known for his gruff yet often lovable screen persona and his Academy Award–winning performance in the film "The Champ" (1931).
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E.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
- 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: Noah Beery Jr. Target entity description: Noah Beery Jr. was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including his role as Joseph "Rocky" Rockford on the series "The Rockford Files."
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A.
Noah Beery
Noah Beery was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his robust presence in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
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B.
Harold Lloyd Jr.
Harold Lloyd Jr. was an American actor and singer, best known as the son of silent film comedy star Harold Lloyd and for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television.
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C.
Andy Devine
Andy Devine was an American character actor best known for his distinctive raspy voice and roles in numerous Western films and the television series "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok."
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D.
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery was an American actor best known for his gruff yet often lovable screen persona and his Academy Award–winning performance in the film "The Champ" (1931).
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E.
Joseph W. Young
Joseph W. Young was an American real estate developer and city planner best known for creating and developing the planned community of Hollywood, Florida, in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Fantasy Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Follow the Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ Hondo (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Only Angels Have Wings NERFINISHED ⓘ Rawhide NERFINISHED ⓘ Red River NERFINISHED ⓘ Riverboat NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergeant York NERFINISHED ⓘ The F.B.I. (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lone Ranger (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Boat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mark of Zorro (1940 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rockford Files NERFINISHED ⓘ The Six Million Dollar Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of G.I. Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ The Virginian (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Wagon Train NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral thrombosis ⓘ |
| child | Bucklind Beery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-08-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-11-01 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Beery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Noah Beery Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Noah Lindsey Beery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Western film ⓘ |
| givenName | Noah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nickname | Pidge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Rockford Files NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tehachapi, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Joseph "Rocky" Rockford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Tehachapi, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lisa Thorman
NERFINISHED
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Maxine Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Mila Beery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uncle | Wallace Beery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1920s–1980s ⓘ |
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: Noah Beery Jr. Description of subject: Noah Beery Jr. was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including his role as Joseph "Rocky" Rockford on the series "The Rockford Files."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Red River (1948 film)