Charles Durning
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Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Durning canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1180945 — 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: Charles Durning Context triple: [Home for the Holidays, castMember, Charles Durning]
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A.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. was an acclaimed American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role in the miniseries "Roots" and his Oscar-winning performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
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B.
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Taxi" and his work in film, television, and theater over several decades.
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C.
Frank Langella
Frank Langella is an American actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including his acclaimed portrayal of Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."
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D.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor renowned for his powerful and versatile performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."
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E.
James Pickens Jr.
James Pickens Jr. is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Dr. Richard Webber on the television series "Grey's Anatomy."
- 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: Charles Durning Target entity description: Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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A.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. was an acclaimed American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role in the miniseries "Roots" and his Oscar-winning performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
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B.
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Taxi" and his work in film, television, and theater over several decades.
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C.
Frank Langella
Frank Langella is an American actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including his acclaimed portrayal of Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."
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D.
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor renowned for his powerful and versatile performances in film and television, including his iconic role as Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs."
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E.
James Pickens Jr.
James Pickens Jr. is an American actor best known for his long-running role as Dr. Richard Webber on the television series "Grey's Anatomy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Charles Durning Description of subject: Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film)
subject surface form:
Happy New Year (1987 film)