Hobart Cavanaugh
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Hobart Cavanaugh was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films, often portraying timid or comedic everyman figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hobart Cavanaugh canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4422703 — 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: Hobart Cavanaugh Context triple: [Captain Blood (1935 film), starring, Hobart Cavanaugh]
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A.
Bernard Kilpatrick
Bernard Kilpatrick is an American political consultant and the father of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, known for his involvement in Detroit-area politics and related corruption investigations.
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B.
Patrick H. McCarren
Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
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C.
James Hathaway
James Hathaway is the intelligent, introspective detective sergeant who partners with Inspector Robbie Lewis in the British crime drama series "Lewis."
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D.
Cecil Doggette
Cecil Doggette is a former American football defensive back who played in the NFL and NFL Europe, notably for teams such as the New York Jets and the Frankfurt Galaxy.
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E.
Joel Sayre
Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
- 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: Hobart Cavanaugh Target entity description: Hobart Cavanaugh was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films, often portraying timid or comedic everyman figures.
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A.
Bernard Kilpatrick
Bernard Kilpatrick is an American political consultant and the father of former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, known for his involvement in Detroit-area politics and related corruption investigations.
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B.
Patrick H. McCarren
Patrick H. McCarren was a prominent early 20th-century Brooklyn politician and New York State senator known for his influence in local Democratic Party politics.
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C.
James Hathaway
James Hathaway is the intelligent, introspective detective sergeant who partners with Inspector Robbie Lewis in the British crime drama series "Lewis."
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D.
Cecil Doggette
Cecil Doggette is a former American football defensive back who played in the NFL and NFL Europe, notably for teams such as the New York Jets and the Frankfurt Galaxy.
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E.
Joel Sayre
Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
Classical Hollywood cinema
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linked to:
Hollywood Golden Age
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| familyName | Cavanaugh ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Hobart ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood film industry
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linked to:
Hollywood
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Hobart Cavanaugh ⓘ |
| notability | prolific character actor in studio-era Hollywood ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying comedic everyman characters
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portraying timid everyman characters ⓘ supporting roles in Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| performerIn | American films ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| typeOfRole | supporting role ⓘ |
| typicalCharacterType |
comic relief
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everyman ⓘ timid man ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ early 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: Hobart Cavanaugh Description of subject: Hobart Cavanaugh was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films, often portraying timid or comedic everyman figures.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.