Henry DeWitt Carey II
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Henry DeWitt Carey II was the birth name of Harry Carey, an American actor best known as a pioneering star of early Western films and silent cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry DeWitt Carey II canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11639074 — 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: Henry DeWitt Carey II Context triple: [Harry Carey, birthName, Henry DeWitt Carey II]
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A.
Charles Terry Schermerhorn
Charles Terry Schermerhorn is the father of American actress Alison Brie.
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B.
Calvert DeForest
Calvert DeForest was an American character actor and comedian best known for his quirky, deadpan appearances as "Larry 'Bud' Melman" on David Letterman's late-night shows.
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C.
Ferdinand L. Barnett
Ferdinand L. Barnett was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist in Chicago who founded the influential black newspaper The Conservator and worked prominently for racial justice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Edgar A. Joralemon
Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- 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: Henry DeWitt Carey II Target entity description: Henry DeWitt Carey II was the birth name of Harry Carey, an American actor best known as a pioneering star of early Western films and silent cinema.
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A.
Charles Terry Schermerhorn
Charles Terry Schermerhorn is the father of American actress Alison Brie.
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B.
Calvert DeForest
Calvert DeForest was an American character actor and comedian best known for his quirky, deadpan appearances as "Larry 'Bud' Melman" on David Letterman's late-night shows.
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C.
Ferdinand L. Barnett
Ferdinand L. Barnett was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist in Chicago who founded the influential black newspaper The Conservator and worked prominently for racial justice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Edgar A. Joralemon
Edgar A. Joralemon was an American architect best known for designing the Cathedral of Saint Paul.
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E.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early sound film era
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silent film era ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Harry Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Harry Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | coronary thrombosis ⓘ |
| child |
Ella Carey
NERFINISHED
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Harry Carey Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1878-01-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1947-09-21 ⓘ |
| familyName | Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Western film ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreSpecialization | Western ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering star of early Western films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hell Bent
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Straight Shooting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkField | silent cinema ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Brentwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Hollywood Walk of Fame star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Olive Fuller Golden
NERFINISHED
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Sarah Jane Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| workedWith | John Ford 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: Henry DeWitt Carey II Description of subject: Henry DeWitt Carey II was the birth name of Harry Carey, an American actor best known as a pioneering star of early Western films and silent cinema.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.