Larry Parks
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Larry Parks was an American film and stage actor best known for his Academy Award–nominated role in the biographical film "The Jolson Story" (1946).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Parks canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9063200 — 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: Larry Parks Context triple: [Betty Garrett, spouse, Larry Parks]
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A.
Lew Ayres
Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
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B.
Richard Dix
Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
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C.
Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
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D.
Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark was an American film and television actor renowned for his intense portrayals in film noir and Westerns, particularly during Hollywood’s mid-20th-century era.
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E.
Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson was a Romanian-American actor renowned for his intense portrayals of gangsters and complex characters in classic Hollywood films such as "Little Caesar."
- 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: Larry Parks Target entity description: Larry Parks was an American film and stage actor best known for his Academy Award–nominated role in the biographical film "The Jolson Story" (1946).
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A.
Lew Ayres
Lew Ayres was an American actor best known for his starring role in the anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front" and for his long-running portrayal of Dr. Kildare.
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B.
Richard Dix
Richard Dix was an American leading man of the silent and early sound film era, best known for his rugged roles in dramas and Westerns and for earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
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C.
Dan Duryea
Dan Duryea was an American character actor best known for his distinctive portrayals of sneering villains and tough guys in film noir and classic Hollywood movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
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D.
Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark was an American film and television actor renowned for his intense portrayals in film noir and Westerns, particularly during Hollywood’s mid-20th-century era.
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E.
Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson was a Romanian-American actor renowned for his intense portrayals of gangsters and complex characters in classic Hollywood films such as "Little Caesar."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Broadway theatre
NERFINISHED
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Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 60 ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Academy Award for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Samuel Lawrence Klausman Parks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child | Andrew Parks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-12-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-04-13 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Parks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
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musical film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Lawrence
NERFINISHED
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Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | portrayal of Al Jolson in The Jolson Story ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1944 ⓘ |
| name | Larry Parks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Actor for The Jolson Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Down to Earth
NERFINISHED
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Emergency Wedding NERFINISHED ⓘ Jolson Sings Again NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Is Better Than Ever NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gallant Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ The Inspector General NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jolson Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Swordsman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Olathe, Kansas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalEvent | Hollywood blacklist ⓘ |
| portrayed | Al Jolson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForBlacklist | testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Betty Garrett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasBlacklistedIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedFor | Columbia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1946 ⓘ |
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: Larry Parks Description of subject: Larry Parks was an American film and stage actor best known for his Academy Award–nominated role in the biographical film "The Jolson Story" (1946).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Down to Earth (1947 film)