Ken Drake
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Ken Drake was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ken Drake canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9795415 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ken Drake Context triple: [A Kind of Stopwatch, castMember, Ken Drake]
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A.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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B.
Larry Drinkard
Larry Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers.
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C.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
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D.
Larry Drake
Larry Drake was an American character actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Benny on the TV series "L.A. Law" and for playing memorable villains in films and horror anthologies.
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E.
Max Dennison
Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
- 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: Ken Drake Target entity description: Ken Drake was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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A.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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B.
Larry Drinkard
Larry Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers.
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C.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
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D.
Larry Drake
Larry Drake was an American character actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Benny on the TV series "L.A. Law" and for playing memorable villains in films and horror anthologies.
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E.
Max Dennison
Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American film
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20th-century American television ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in mid-20th-century film
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supporting roles in mid-20th-century television ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
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: Ken Drake Description of subject: Ken Drake was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.