Charles Waldron
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Charles Waldron was an American character actor of stage and screen, active in the early 20th century and known for his supporting roles in classic Hollywood films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Waldron canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8291368 — 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: Charles Waldron Context triple: [Remember the Night, starring, Charles Waldron]
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A.
Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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B.
Charles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his work in the post-bop and avant-garde jazz scenes, including co-founding the influential Strata-East record label.
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C.
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer known for his work in hard bop and post-bop, including classic Blue Note recordings and collaborations with leading jazz artists of the 1960s and beyond.
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D.
Art Blakey
Art Blakey was an influential American jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for leading the Jazz Messengers and helping to shape the hard bop style while mentoring many future jazz greats.
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E.
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was a pioneering American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his influential bebop style, towering stage presence, and acclaimed recordings such as "Go!" and "Our Man in Paris."
- 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: Charles Waldron Target entity description: Charles Waldron was an American character actor of stage and screen, active in the early 20th century and known for his supporting roles in classic Hollywood films.
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A.
Charles McPherson
Charles McPherson is an American jazz alto saxophonist known for his bebop-rooted style and long association with bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
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B.
Charles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader known for his work in the post-bop and avant-garde jazz scenes, including co-founding the influential Strata-East record label.
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C.
Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer known for his work in hard bop and post-bop, including classic Blue Note recordings and collaborations with leading jazz artists of the 1960s and beyond.
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D.
Art Blakey
Art Blakey was an influential American jazz drummer and bandleader, best known for leading the Jazz Messengers and helping to shape the hard bop style while mentoring many future jazz greats.
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E.
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was a pioneering American jazz tenor saxophonist known for his influential bebop style, towering stage presence, and acclaimed recordings such as "Go!" and "Our Man in Paris."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
stage ⓘ |
| name | Charles Waldron ⓘ |
| notableFor | supporting roles in classic Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableRole |
General Sternwood in The Big Sleep
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linked to:
General Sternwood
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| notableWork |
The Big Sleep
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The Big Sleep (1946 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Big Sleep
The Case of the Black Cat ⓘ The Case of the Lucky Legs ⓘ The Case of the Stuttering Bishop ⓘ The Case of the Velvet Claws ⓘ The Devil Is a Sissy ⓘ The Glass Key ⓘ
linked to:
The Glass Key (novel)
The Great Man Votes ⓘ The Lady Consents ⓘ The President Vanishes ⓘ The President's Mystery ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Charles Waldron Description of subject: Charles Waldron was an American character actor of stage and screen, active in the early 20th century and known for his supporting roles in classic Hollywood films.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.