The Actor

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The Actor was the nickname of Willie Sutton, a notorious American bank robber famed for his elaborate disguises and theatrical methods during heists.

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Label Occurrences
The Actor canonical 3

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American person
bank robber
criminal
human
activeIn 20th century
arrestedMultipleTimes true
burialPlace Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens
surface form: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens, New York, United States
causeOfDeath lung cancer
coAuthorOf Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber
convictedOf armed robbery
bank robbery
prison escape
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1901-06-30
dateOfDeath 1980-11-02
escapeFrom Eastern State Penitentiary
Sing Sing
ethnicity Irish American
fieldOfActivity organized crime
gender male
genreOfWriting memoir
hasNickname Slick Willie
The Actor
imprisonedIn Attica Correctional Facility
Eastern State Penitentiary
Sing Sing
knownForQuote Because that’s where the money is
languageSpoken English
name William Francis Sutton Jr.
notableAliasReason called "The Actor" for his theatrical disguises and performances during robberies
notableFor bank robbery
elaborate disguises during robberies
theatrical methods during heists
occupation author
bank robber
placeOfBirth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
placeOfDeath Springfield, Massachusetts
surface form: Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
postPrisonActivity lecturing on security
writing memoirs
residence New York City
subjectOf Sutton's law
surface form: Sutton’s law
usedDisguisesAs maintenance worker
messenger
police officer
yearsImprisonedApprox over 30 years

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: The Actor
Description of subject: The Actor was the nickname of Willie Sutton, a notorious American bank robber famed for his elaborate disguises and theatrical methods during heists.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Willie Sutton nickname The Actor
The Actor hasNickname The Actor
subject surface form: Willie Sutton