Martin Balsam
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Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Martin Balsam canonical | 20 |
| Martin Henry Balsam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1170658 — 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: Martin Balsam Context triple: [Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring, Martin Balsam]
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A.
Martin Milner
Martin Milner was an American film and television actor best known for his leading roles in the series "Route 66" and "Adam-12."
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B.
James Brolin
James Brolin is an American actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including "Westworld," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," and "Hotel."
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C.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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D.
Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, particularly in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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E.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was an American actor best known for his starring roles in the television series "77 Sunset Strip" and "The F.B.I."
- 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: Martin Balsam Target entity description: Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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A.
Martin Milner
Martin Milner was an American film and television actor best known for his leading roles in the series "Route 66" and "Adam-12."
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B.
James Brolin
James Brolin is an American actor and director known for his roles in film and television, including "Westworld," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," and "Hotel."
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C.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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D.
Gary Merrill
Gary Merrill was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, particularly in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas.
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E.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was an American actor best known for his starring roles in the television series "77 Sunset Strip" and "The F.B.I."
- 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: Martin Balsam Description of subject: Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Breakfast at Tiffany's
subject surface form:
All the President’s Men
this entity surface form:
Martin Henry Balsam
subject surface form:
Harlow (1965 film)