Clifford
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Clifford is the given name of American actor and Academy Award winner Cliff Robertson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clifford canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10540550 — 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: Clifford Context triple: [Cliff Robertson, givenName, Clifford]
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A.
Clifford
Clifford is an English surname historically associated with several notable figures in British politics, nobility, and public life.
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B.
Clifford
Clifford is the young boy protagonist of the 1991 horror-comedy film "Critters 3."
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C.
Clifford
Clifford is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, known for its historic character and proximity to the town of Boston Spa.
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D.
Clarry
Clarry is a diminutive or affectionate nickname derived from the given name Clarence.
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E.
Rackham
Rackham is the surname of Arthur Rackham, the renowned English book illustrator celebrated for his distinctive, fantastical artwork in early 20th-century children’s literature and fairy tales.
- 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: Clifford Target entity description: Clifford is the given name of American actor and Academy Award winner Cliff Robertson.
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A.
Clifford
Clifford is an English surname historically associated with several notable figures in British politics, nobility, and public life.
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B.
Clifford
Clifford is the young boy protagonist of the 1991 horror-comedy film "Critters 3."
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C.
Clifford
Clifford is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, known for its historic character and proximity to the town of Boston Spa.
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D.
Clarry
Clarry is a diminutive or affectionate nickname derived from the given name Clarence.
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E.
Rackham
Rackham is the surname of Arthur Rackham, the renowned English book illustrator celebrated for his distinctive, fantastical artwork in early 20th-century children’s literature and fairy tales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| awardFor | Academy Award for Best Actor for Charly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actor
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
John F. Kennedy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Uncle Ben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-09-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-09-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Antioch College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
La Jolla High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Clifford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Merchant Marine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAwardWork | Charly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Charly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
PT 109 NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man (2002 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | La Jolla, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Stony Brook, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cynthia Stone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dina Merrill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Cliff Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Clifford Description of subject: Clifford is the given name of American actor and Academy Award winner Cliff Robertson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.