Walter Reed
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Walter Reed was an American film and television character actor active from the 1930s to the 1960s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Reed canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9795543 — 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: Walter Reed Context triple: [Nick of Time, castMember, Walter Reed]
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A.
Major Walter Reed
Major Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician renowned for leading the team that proved yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, revolutionizing public health and tropical medicine.
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B.
Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas was a Confederate general and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War, instrumental in organizing and supplying the Confederate war effort.
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C.
William C. Gorgas
William C. Gorgas was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army surgeon general best known for his pioneering work in controlling mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever and malaria, which enabled large-scale projects such as the construction of the Panama Canal.
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D.
Amelia Gayle Gorgas
Amelia Gayle Gorgas was an American librarian and hospital matron who served for decades at the University of Alabama, where the main library is named in her honor.
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E.
U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond
U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond was a 19th-century American military physician and medical reformer who modernized the U.S. Army Medical Department and advanced medical research and standards of care.
- 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: Walter Reed Target entity description: Walter Reed was an American film and television character actor active from the 1930s to the 1960s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
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A.
Major Walter Reed
Major Walter Reed was a U.S. Army physician renowned for leading the team that proved yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, revolutionizing public health and tropical medicine.
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B.
Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas was a Confederate general and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War, instrumental in organizing and supplying the Confederate war effort.
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C.
William C. Gorgas
William C. Gorgas was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army surgeon general best known for his pioneering work in controlling mosquito-borne diseases like yellow fever and malaria, which enabled large-scale projects such as the construction of the Panama Canal.
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D.
Amelia Gayle Gorgas
Amelia Gayle Gorgas was an American librarian and hospital matron who served for decades at the University of Alabama, where the main library is named in her honor.
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E.
U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond
U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond was a 19th-century American military physician and medical reformer who modernized the U.S. Army Medical Department and advanced medical research and standards of care.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1960s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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adventure film ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | supporting roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
supporting roles in Western films
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supporting roles in adventure films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
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American television ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| 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: Walter Reed Description of subject: Walter Reed was an American film and television character actor active from the 1930s to the 1960s, known for his supporting roles in numerous Westerns and adventure films.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.