Cleavon Little
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Cleavon Little was an American actor and comedian best known for his starring role as Sheriff Bart in Mel Brooks' satirical Western film "Blazing Saddles."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cleavon Little canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10649045 — 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: Cleavon Little Context triple: [Vanishing Point (1971 film), starring, Cleavon Little]
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A.
Tyree Pittman
Tyree Pittman, better known as Young Chop, is an American record producer and rapper recognized for shaping the sound of Chicago drill music.
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B.
Kene Holliday
Kene Holliday is an American actor best known for his role as investigator Tyler Hudson on the television series "Matlock."
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C.
Morris Lamont Chestnut
Morris Lamont Chestnut is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Boyz n the Hood" and "The Best Man" series, as well as numerous television dramas.
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D.
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr.
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his acclaimed dramatic roles in films like "Hotel Rwanda" and for portraying War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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E.
Julann Wright
Julann Wright is best known as the former wife of television host and media mogul Merv Griffin.
- 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: Cleavon Little Target entity description: Cleavon Little was an American actor and comedian best known for his starring role as Sheriff Bart in Mel Brooks' satirical Western film "Blazing Saddles."
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A.
Tyree Pittman
Tyree Pittman, better known as Young Chop, is an American record producer and rapper recognized for shaping the sound of Chicago drill music.
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B.
Kene Holliday
Kene Holliday is an American actor best known for his role as investigator Tyler Hudson on the television series "Matlock."
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C.
Morris Lamont Chestnut
Morris Lamont Chestnut is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Boyz n the Hood" and "The Best Man" series, as well as numerous television dramas.
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D.
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr.
Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his acclaimed dramatic roles in films like "Hotel Rwanda" and for portraying War Machine in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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E.
Julann Wright
Julann Wright is best known as the former wife of television host and media mogul Merv Griffin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1992 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cremated (ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | colorectal cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-06-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1992-10-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
NERFINISHED
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Juilliard School ⓘ San Diego City College NERFINISHED ⓘ San Diego State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Little NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Cleavon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Cleavon Little NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Sheriff Bart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blazing Saddles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Purlie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chickasha, Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Blazing Saddles
NERFINISHED
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Dear John (U.S. TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Once Bitten NERFINISHED ⓘ Temperatures Rising NERFINISHED ⓘ The Waltons NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanishing Point 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: Cleavon Little Description of subject: Cleavon Little was an American actor and comedian best known for his starring role as Sheriff Bart in Mel Brooks' satirical Western film "Blazing Saddles."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.