Lyon Himan Green
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Lyon Himan Green, better known as Lorne Greene, was a Canadian actor and broadcaster most famous for his role as Ben Cartwright on the television series "Bonanza."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lyon Himan Green canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9519159 — 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: Lyon Himan Green Context triple: [Lorne Greene, birthName, Lyon Himan Green]
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A.
Hamar Greenwood
Hamar Greenwood was a British politician and the last Chief Secretary for Ireland, known for his controversial role during the Irish War of Independence and the Anglo-Irish Treaty period.
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B.
John Greenwood
John Greenwood was a prominent 16th-century English Separatist leader and clergyman who advocated for congregational independence from the Church of England and was executed for his nonconformist religious views.
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C.
Walon Green
Walon Green is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his work on films like "The Wild Bunch" and television series such as "Law & Order" and "Hill Street Blues."
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D.
Le Ly Hayslip
Le Ly Hayslip is a Vietnamese-American writer and humanitarian best known for her memoirs about surviving the Vietnam War and their adaptation into the film "Heaven & Earth."
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E.
Lee Marrow
Lee Marrow is an Italian music producer and DJ best known for his influential work in 1990s Eurodance, including creating the sound behind Corona’s hit "The Rhythm of the Night."
- 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: Lyon Himan Green Target entity description: Lyon Himan Green, better known as Lorne Greene, was a Canadian actor and broadcaster most famous for his role as Ben Cartwright on the television series "Bonanza."
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A.
Hamar Greenwood
Hamar Greenwood was a British politician and the last Chief Secretary for Ireland, known for his controversial role during the Irish War of Independence and the Anglo-Irish Treaty period.
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B.
John Greenwood
John Greenwood was a prominent 16th-century English Separatist leader and clergyman who advocated for congregational independence from the Church of England and was executed for his nonconformist religious views.
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C.
Walon Green
Walon Green is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his work on films like "The Wild Bunch" and television series such as "Law & Order" and "Hill Street Blues."
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D.
Le Ly Hayslip
Le Ly Hayslip is a Vietnamese-American writer and humanitarian best known for her memoirs about surviving the Vietnam War and their adaptation into the film "Heaven & Earth."
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E.
Lee Marrow
Lee Marrow is an Italian music producer and DJ best known for his influential work in 1990s Eurodance, including creating the sound behind Corona’s hit "The Rhythm of the Night."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Order of Canada ⓘ |
| birthName | Lyon Himan Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
pneumonia
ⓘ
ulcer ⓘ |
| characterRole | patriarch of the Cartwright family ⓘ |
| child | Belinda Susan Bennett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Queen's University at Kingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
ⓘ
broadcasting ⓘ |
| genre | Western television series ⓘ |
| givenName | Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| name |
Lorne Greene
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lyon Himan Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| nickname | The Voice of Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Ben Cartwright
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Commander Adama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Battlestar Galactica
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bonanza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
broadcaster ⓘ film actor ⓘ radio personality ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Old Time Radio broadcasting in Canada ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Ben Cartwright on Bonanza
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Commander Adama on Battlestar Galactica ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Nancy Deale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rita Hands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lyon Himan Green Description of subject: Lyon Himan Green, better known as Lorne Greene, was a Canadian actor and broadcaster most famous for his role as Ben Cartwright on the television series "Bonanza."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.