Augustin Duncan
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Augustin Duncan was an American stage actor and director active in the early 20th century, known for his work on Broadway and involvement with the Theatre Guild.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augustin Duncan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10352221 — 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: Augustin Duncan Context triple: [Isadora Duncan, sibling, Augustin Duncan]
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A.
Lafayette Reynolds
Lafayette Reynolds is a flamboyant, sharp-tongued short-order cook and medium on the HBO vampire drama series "True Blood."
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B.
Hannibal Brooks
Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film about a prisoner of war who escapes through the Alps with an elephant, directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed.
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C.
Reuben Scott
Reuben Scott is a character in August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," representing part of the African American experience in early 20th-century Pittsburgh.
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D.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
Slimm Calhoun
Slimm Calhoun is an American rapper from Atlanta best known for his work with the Dungeon Family collective and his early-2000s solo material.
- 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: Augustin Duncan Target entity description: Augustin Duncan was an American stage actor and director active in the early 20th century, known for his work on Broadway and involvement with the Theatre Guild.
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A.
Lafayette Reynolds
Lafayette Reynolds is a flamboyant, sharp-tongued short-order cook and medium on the HBO vampire drama series "True Blood."
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B.
Hannibal Brooks
Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film about a prisoner of war who escapes through the Alps with an elephant, directed by Michael Winner and starring Oliver Reed.
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C.
Reuben Scott
Reuben Scott is a character in August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," representing part of the African American experience in early 20th-century Pittsburgh.
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D.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
Slimm Calhoun
Slimm Calhoun is an American rapper from Atlanta best known for his work with the Dungeon Family collective and his early-2000s solo material.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
stage acting
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stage directing ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Augustin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Theatre Guild NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Augustin Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American stage performances
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involvement with the Theatre Guild ⓘ work on Broadway ⓘ |
| notableWork | Broadway theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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stage actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Augustin Duncan Description of subject: Augustin Duncan was an American stage actor and director active in the early 20th century, known for his work on Broadway and involvement with the Theatre Guild.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.