David Huddleston
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David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Huddleston canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5293875 — 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: David Huddleston Context triple: [The Big Lebowski, starredActor, David Huddleston]
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Richard T. Rives
Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
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B.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
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C.
William C. Reynolds
William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
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D.
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
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E.
John M. Balch
John M. Balch was an individual significant enough in local history that the city of Balch Springs, Texas, was named in his honor.
- 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: David Huddleston Target entity description: David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
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A.
Richard T. Rives
Richard T. Rives was a U.S. federal appellate judge known for his influential civil rights decisions during the mid-20th century, particularly in cases challenging racial segregation in the American South.
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B.
James E. Cheek
James E. Cheek was an American educator and theologian best known for serving as president of Howard University from 1969 to 1989.
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C.
William C. Reynolds
William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
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D.
Thomas E. Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman is an American cinematographer known for his work on popular films including the dark comedy-fantasy "Beetlejuice."
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E.
John M. Balch
John M. Balch was an individual significant enough in local history that the city of Balch Springs, Texas, was named in his honor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
heart disease
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kidney disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-09-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-08-02 ⓘ |
| familyName | Huddleston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | David William Huddleston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Company (1972 film)
NERFINISHED
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Blazing Saddles NERFINISHED ⓘ Capricorn One NERFINISHED ⓘ Frantic (1988 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Gilmore Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunsmoke NERFINISHED ⓘ It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ Magnum, P.I. NERFINISHED ⓘ Rio Lobo NERFINISHED ⓘ Santa Claus: The Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ Smokey and the Bandit II NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Lebowski NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greatest NERFINISHED ⓘ The Klansman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mary Tyler Moore Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Producers (1967 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rockford Files NERFINISHED ⓘ The Waltons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vinton, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
Benjamin Franklin in the miniseries The American Revolution
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Grandpa Arnold in The Wonder Years NERFINISHED ⓘ Mayor in The Producers (1967 film) ⓘ Olson Johnson in Blazing Saddles ⓘ Santa Claus in Santa Claus: The Movie ⓘ The Big Lebowski (title character) in The Big Lebowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah C. Koeppe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–2010s ⓘ |
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: David Huddleston Description of subject: David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.