Pomeroy Cannon
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Pomeroy Cannon was an American actor known for his role in the silent-era epic film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pomeroy Cannon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T778160 — 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: Pomeroy Cannon Context triple: [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film), starring, Pomeroy Cannon]
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A.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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B.
James Warren Sever
James Warren Sever was a Harvard University alumnus and benefactor after whom the historic Sever Hall in Harvard Yard is named.
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C.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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D.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Nathaniel A. Owings
Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
- 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: Pomeroy Cannon Target entity description: Pomeroy Cannon was an American actor known for his role in the silent-era epic film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921).
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A.
Henry Gage
Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
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B.
James Warren Sever
James Warren Sever was a Harvard University alumnus and benefactor after whom the historic Sever Hall in Harvard Yard is named.
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C.
Charles Devens
Charles Devens was a 19th-century American lawyer, Union Army general in the Civil War, and U.S. Attorney General who also served as a judge and politician from Massachusetts.
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D.
Samuel Arnold
Samuel Arnold was an American Confederate sympathizer best known for his role as one of the conspirators involved in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Nathaniel A. Owings
Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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cinema ⓘ performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| hasCitizenship | American ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | supporting roles in silent films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | film ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the 1921 film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ⓘ |
| partOf | American silent cinema ⓘ |
| typeOfArtist | screen actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Pomeroy Cannon Description of subject: Pomeroy Cannon was an American actor known for his role in the silent-era epic film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film)
subject surface form:
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 film)