Raymond St. Jacques
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Raymond St. Jacques was an American actor and director best known as one of the first prominent Black leading men in Hollywood film and television during the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Raymond St. Jacques canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10836550 — 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: Raymond St. Jacques Context triple: [Cotton Comes to Harlem, leadActor, Raymond St. Jacques]
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A.
Gilles Ste-Croix
Gilles Ste-Croix is a Canadian entrepreneur and creative visionary best known as a co-founder and key artistic force behind the contemporary circus company Cirque du Soleil.
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B.
Nicolas Tournier
Nicolas Tournier was a French Baroque painter known for his dramatic use of light and shadow and religious scenes influenced by the style of Caravaggio.
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C.
Louis Bayard
Louis Bayard is an American novelist known for his historical mysteries and literary thrillers, including the novel that inspired "The Pale Blue Eye."
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D.
Douglas A. Fraser
Douglas A. Fraser was an influential American labor leader who served as president of the United Auto Workers and became a prominent voice in labor-management relations in the late 20th century.
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E.
Paul Rey
Paul Rey is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter known for his melodic, emotionally driven songs and collaborations with international artists.
- 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: Raymond St. Jacques Target entity description: Raymond St. Jacques was an American actor and director best known as one of the first prominent Black leading men in Hollywood film and television during the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Gilles Ste-Croix
Gilles Ste-Croix is a Canadian entrepreneur and creative visionary best known as a co-founder and key artistic force behind the contemporary circus company Cirque du Soleil.
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B.
Nicolas Tournier
Nicolas Tournier was a French Baroque painter known for his dramatic use of light and shadow and religious scenes influenced by the style of Caravaggio.
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C.
Louis Bayard
Louis Bayard is an American novelist known for his historical mysteries and literary thrillers, including the novel that inspired "The Pale Blue Eye."
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D.
Douglas A. Fraser
Douglas A. Fraser was an influential American labor leader who served as president of the United Auto Workers and became a prominent voice in labor-management relations in the late 20th century.
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E.
Paul Rey
Paul Rey is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter known for his melodic, emotionally driven songs and collaborations with international artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African-American actor
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film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Raymond Saint Jacques NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | James Arthur Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lymphoma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-03-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-08-27 ⓘ |
| directed | Book of Numbers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
|
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
blaxploitation film
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drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Raymond St. Jacques NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first prominent Black leading men in Hollywood film and television ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All in the Family
NERFINISHED
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Book of Numbers NERFINISHED ⓘ Cotton Comes to Harlem NERFINISHED ⓘ Rawhide NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Next Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ The Final Comedown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Green Berets NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man from U.N.C.L.E. NERFINISHED ⓘ They Call Me Mister Tibbs! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | civil rights activism ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hartford, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| role | Simon Blake in Rawhide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeries | Rawhide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
John Wayne
NERFINISHED
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Ossie Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Poitier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–1990 ⓘ |
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: Raymond St. Jacques Description of subject: Raymond St. Jacques was an American actor and director best known as one of the first prominent Black leading men in Hollywood film and television during the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.