Richard Webb
E552512
Richard Webb was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century noir and adventure productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Webb canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5585175 — 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 Webb Context triple: [Out of the Past, starring, Richard Webb]
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A.
Paul Webb
Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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B.
William Webb
William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
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C.
Anthony Forwood
Anthony Forwood was a British actor best known for his film and stage work in the mid-20th century and for his long-term partnership with Dirk Bogarde.
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D.
Roy Webb
Roy Webb was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous RKO Pictures films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- 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 Webb Target entity description: Richard Webb was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century noir and adventure productions.
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A.
Paul Webb
Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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B.
William Webb
William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
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C.
Anthony Forwood
Anthony Forwood was a British actor best known for his film and stage work in the mid-20th century and for his long-term partnership with Dirk Bogarde.
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D.
Roy Webb
Roy Webb was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous RKO Pictures films, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s.
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E.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Richard Webb Description of subject: Richard Webb was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century noir and adventure productions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.