Alan Marshal
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Alan Marshal was an Australian-born American actor active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for his roles in mystery and drama films.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Marshal canonical | 11 |
| Alan Marshall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6598810 — 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: Alan Marshal Context triple: [After the Thin Man, starring, Alan Marshal]
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A.
Alan Marshall
Alan Marshall is a British film producer known for his work on notable movies including the musical gangster film "Bugsy Malone."
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B.
Craig Morton
Craig Morton is a former American football quarterback best known for leading both the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos to Super Bowl appearances in the 1970s.
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C.
Jack Halford
Jack Halford is a retired detective and one of the central members of the cold case-solving team in the British television series "New Tricks."
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D.
John Durkan
John Durkan is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan.
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E.
Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey was a British film editor and director best known for his acclaimed work on the historical drama "The Lion in Winter."
- 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: Alan Marshal Target entity description: Alan Marshal was an Australian-born American actor active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for his roles in mystery and drama films.
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A.
Alan Marshall
Alan Marshall is a British film producer known for his work on notable movies including the musical gangster film "Bugsy Malone."
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B.
Craig Morton
Craig Morton is a former American football quarterback best known for leading both the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos to Super Bowl appearances in the 1970s.
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C.
Jack Halford
Jack Halford is a retired detective and one of the central members of the cold case-solving team in the British television series "New Tricks."
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D.
John Durkan
John Durkan is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan.
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E.
Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey was a British film editor and director best known for his acclaimed work on the historical drama "The Lion in Winter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian-born American actor
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film actor ⓘ person ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| birthName | Alan Marshal ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | Australian-born American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Australia
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United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | acting ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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mystery film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
American film industry
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Hollywood studio system ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
cinema
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theatre ⓘ |
| name | Alan Marshal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
drama films
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mystery films ⓘ |
| notableRoleType |
leading man
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supporting actor ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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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: Alan Marshal Description of subject: Alan Marshal was an Australian-born American actor active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for his roles in mystery and drama films.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.