Dick York as Bertram Cates
E165260
Dick York as Bertram Cates is the actor’s portrayal of the young schoolteacher on trial for teaching evolution in the 1960 courtroom drama film "Inherit the Wind."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bertram Cates | 1 |
| Dick York as Bertram Cates canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1440132 — 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: Dick York as Bertram Cates Context triple: [Inherit the Wind (1960 film), characterRole, Dick York as Bertram Cates]
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Glenn Holland in Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland in "Mr. Holland's Opus" is a dedicated high school music teacher and composer whose decades-long career profoundly impacts his students while he struggles to balance his artistic ambitions with family and professional responsibilities.
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B.
Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 teen comedy-drama film about a wealthy but troubled high school student who becomes an amateur psychiatrist for his classmates.
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C.
Professor Burris
Professor Burris is the skeptical psychology professor and narrator of B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," through whose perspective the experimental community is explored and critiqued.
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D.
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Josh Lyman on the political drama series "The West Wing."
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E.
Mark Robarts
Mark Robarts is an ambitious young clergyman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," whose social aspirations and financial imprudence drive much of the story’s conflict.
- 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: Dick York as Bertram Cates Target entity description: Dick York as Bertram Cates is the actor’s portrayal of the young schoolteacher on trial for teaching evolution in the 1960 courtroom drama film "Inherit the Wind."
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A.
Glenn Holland in Mr. Holland's Opus
Glenn Holland in "Mr. Holland's Opus" is a dedicated high school music teacher and composer whose decades-long career profoundly impacts his students while he struggles to balance his artistic ambitions with family and professional responsibilities.
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B.
Charlie Bartlett
Charlie Bartlett is a 2007 teen comedy-drama film about a wealthy but troubled high school student who becomes an amateur psychiatrist for his classmates.
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C.
Professor Burris
Professor Burris is the skeptical psychology professor and narrator of B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," through whose perspective the experimental community is explored and critiqued.
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D.
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Josh Lyman on the political drama series "The West Wing."
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E.
Mark Robarts
Mark Robarts is an ambitious young clergyman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," whose social aspirations and financial imprudence drive much of the story’s conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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: Dick York as Bertram Cates Description of subject: Dick York as Bertram Cates is the actor’s portrayal of the young schoolteacher on trial for teaching evolution in the 1960 courtroom drama film "Inherit the Wind."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Inherit the Wind
this entity surface form:
Bertram Cates
subject surface form:
Inherit the Wind (1960 film)