Charles S. Dutton
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Charles S. Dutton is an American actor and director known for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including his Emmy-winning work on shows like "The Practice" and "Without a Trace."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles S. Dutton canonical | 29 |
| Charles Stanley Dutton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3068232 — 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 S. Dutton Context triple: [Random Hearts, hasCastMember, Charles S. Dutton]
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A.
Hugh J. Jewett
Hugh J. Jewett was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Erie Railroad.
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B.
John B. Denton
John B. Denton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister, lawyer, and soldier on the Texas frontier who was killed in conflict with Native Americans and later became the namesake of Denton County, Texas.
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C.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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D.
Richard T. Wetherald
Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
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E.
Donald W. Loveland
Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
- 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 S. Dutton Target entity description: Charles S. Dutton is an American actor and director known for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including his Emmy-winning work on shows like "The Practice" and "Without a Trace."
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A.
Hugh J. Jewett
Hugh J. Jewett was a 19th-century American lawyer, politician, and railroad executive best known for serving as president of the Erie Railroad.
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B.
John B. Denton
John B. Denton was a 19th-century American Methodist minister, lawyer, and soldier on the Texas frontier who was killed in conflict with Native Americans and later became the namesake of Denton County, Texas.
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C.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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D.
Richard T. Wetherald
Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
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E.
Donald W. Loveland
Donald W. Loveland is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential contributions to automated theorem proving and logic in computer science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award
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linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
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| birthName |
Charles Stanley Dutton
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linked to:
Charles S. Dutton
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-01-30 ⓘ |
| directed |
The Corner
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episodes of "The Practice" ⓘ episodes of "Without a Trace" ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hagerstown Junior College
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Yale School of Drama ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| knownFor | powerful dramatic performances ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1994 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1989 ⓘ |
| name | Charles S. Dutton ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for "The Practice"
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for "Without a Trace" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Time to Kill
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Alien 3 ⓘ Cookie's Fortune ⓘ Jacknife ⓘ Roc ⓘ Rudy ⓘ The Corner ⓘ The Practice ⓘ Without a Trace ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Baltimore, Maryland, United States ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Fortune in the film "Rudy"
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Leon in the film "Alien 3" ⓘ Roc Emerson in the television series "Roc" ⓘ
linked to:
television series "Roc"
Sheriff Ozzie Walls in "A Time to Kill" ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| spouse |
Debbi Morgan
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Debbie Morgan ⓘ |
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 S. Dutton Description of subject: Charles S. Dutton is an American actor and director known for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including his Emmy-winning work on shows like "The Practice" and "Without a Trace."
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
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notableRecipient
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Charles S. Dutton
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subject linked to:
Cry, the Beloved Country
linked to: Charles S. Dutton