Sid Haig
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Sid Haig was an American character actor best known for his menacing and eccentric roles in horror and exploitation films, particularly as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sid Haig canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913325 — 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: Sid Haig Context triple: [House of 1000 Corpses, castMember, Sid Haig]
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A.
Jon Spaihts
Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on major science fiction and blockbuster films such as "Prometheus," "Doctor Strange," and "Dune."
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B.
Tom Savini
Tom Savini is an American special effects makeup artist, actor, and director renowned for his groundbreaking gore effects in horror films such as "Dawn of the Dead" and "Friday the 13th."
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C.
Wes Craven
Wes Craven was an influential American filmmaker best known for pioneering modern horror with franchises like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream.
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D.
Gene Corman
Gene Corman was an American film producer and talent agent known for his work in low-budget genre films and for collaborating with major studios on commercially successful projects.
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E.
Le Fanu
Le Fanu is the surname of the Anglo-Irish family best known for producing the Victorian Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu.
- 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: Sid Haig Target entity description: Sid Haig was an American character actor best known for his menacing and eccentric roles in horror and exploitation films, particularly as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s movies.
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A.
Jon Spaihts
Jon Spaihts is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on major science fiction and blockbuster films such as "Prometheus," "Doctor Strange," and "Dune."
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B.
Tom Savini
Tom Savini is an American special effects makeup artist, actor, and director renowned for his groundbreaking gore effects in horror films such as "Dawn of the Dead" and "Friday the 13th."
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C.
Wes Craven
Wes Craven was an influential American filmmaker best known for pioneering modern horror with franchises like A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream.
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D.
Gene Corman
Gene Corman was an American film producer and talent agent known for his work in low-budget genre films and for collaborating with major studios on commercially successful projects.
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E.
Le Fanu
Le Fanu is the surname of the Anglo-Irish family best known for producing the Victorian Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
3 from Hell
NERFINISHED
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Batman (1960s TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Bone Tomahawk NERFINISHED ⓘ Coffy NERFINISHED ⓘ Diamonds Are Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ Foxy Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Galaxy of Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ House of 1000 Corpses NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason of Star Command NERFINISHED ⓘ MacGyver NERFINISHED ⓘ Mission: Impossible (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Original Series NERFINISHED ⓘ THX 1138 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil's Rejects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Sidney Eddie Mosesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiopulmonary arrest ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-07-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-09-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 2007-11-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Pasadena Playhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Armenian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Mosesian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalCharacterPortrayed | Captain Spaulding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
exploitation film
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horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Sidney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | 1.93 m ⓘ |
| name | Sid Haig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | menacing and eccentric roles in horror and exploitation films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
3 from Hell
NERFINISHED
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House of 1000 Corpses NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil's Rejects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Fresno, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse | Susan L. Oberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Sid Haig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith | Rob Zombie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960–2019 ⓘ |
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: Sid Haig Description of subject: Sid Haig was an American character actor best known for his menacing and eccentric roles in horror and exploitation films, particularly as Captain Spaulding in Rob Zombie’s movies.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.