Donald Walter Guadagno
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Donald Walter Guadagno, better known by his stage name Don Gordon, was an American character actor recognized for his frequent collaborations with Steve McQueen and numerous film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donald Walter Guadagno canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10649544 — 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: Donald Walter Guadagno Context triple: [Don Gordon, birthName, Donald Walter Guadagno]
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A.
Robert Glaudini
Robert Glaudini is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor best known for writing the play "Jack Goes Boating," which he later adapted for the film version.
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B.
Charles J. Guarnieri
Charles J. Guarnieri is a Pennsylvania police chief whose employment dispute with the Borough of Duryea led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, addressing public employees’ First Amendment petition rights.
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C.
Gerald Di Pego
Gerald Di Pego is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on films such as "Message in a Bottle" and numerous television movies.
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D.
Charles Cioffi
Charles Cioffi is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, particularly in dramas and crime series from the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Frank Yaconelli
Frank Yaconelli was an Italian-American character actor and musician known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Donald Walter Guadagno Target entity description: Donald Walter Guadagno, better known by his stage name Don Gordon, was an American character actor recognized for his frequent collaborations with Steve McQueen and numerous film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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A.
Robert Glaudini
Robert Glaudini is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor best known for writing the play "Jack Goes Boating," which he later adapted for the film version.
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B.
Charles J. Guarnieri
Charles J. Guarnieri is a Pennsylvania police chief whose employment dispute with the Borough of Duryea led to the U.S. Supreme Court case Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, addressing public employees’ First Amendment petition rights.
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C.
Gerald Di Pego
Gerald Di Pego is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on films such as "Message in a Bottle" and numerous television movies.
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D.
Charles Cioffi
Charles Cioffi is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, particularly in dramas and crime series from the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Frank Yaconelli
Frank Yaconelli was an Italian-American character actor and musician known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| birthName | Donald Walter Guadagno ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Steve McQueen ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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crime film ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
frequent collaborations with Steve McQueen
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numerous film roles ⓘ numerous television roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bullitt
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Lethal Weapon ⓘ Papillon ⓘ Perry Mason ⓘ The Defenders ⓘ The F.B.I. ⓘ The Outer Limits ⓘ
linked to:
The Outer Limits (TV series)
The Streets of San Francisco ⓘ The Towering Inferno ⓘ The Twilight Zone ⓘ
linked to:
The Twilight Zone (TV series)
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| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ |
| stageName | Don Gordon ⓘ |
| usedName | Don Gordon ⓘ |
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: Donald Walter Guadagno Description of subject: Donald Walter Guadagno, better known by his stage name Don Gordon, was an American character actor recognized for his frequent collaborations with Steve McQueen and numerous film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Donald Walter Guadagno