Sterling Hayden
E20817
OSS operative
United States Marine
World War II veteran
film actor
human
memoirist
stage actor
television actor
writer
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sterling Hayden canonical | 80 |
| Rick Martin – Sterling Hayden | 1 |
| Sterling Hayden as Bart Laish | 1 |
| Sterling Hayden as John Garth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T143254 — 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: Sterling Hayden Context triple: [Office of Strategic Services, employed, Sterling Hayden]
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A.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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B.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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C.
Tyrone Power
Tyrone Power was a popular American film and stage actor of the 1930s–1950s, best known for his swashbuckling and romantic leading roles in Hollywood classics such as "The Mark of Zorro" and "Blood and Sand."
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D.
John Garfield
John Garfield was an American actor of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances in socially conscious films.
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E.
Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone was a British actor best known for his definitive film portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Sterling Hayden Target entity description: Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
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A.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
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B.
Rance Howard
Rance Howard was an American character actor known for his extensive work in film and television and as the patriarch of the Howard acting and directing family.
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C.
Tyrone Power
Tyrone Power was a popular American film and stage actor of the 1930s–1950s, best known for his swashbuckling and romantic leading roles in Hollywood classics such as "The Mark of Zorro" and "Blood and Sand."
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D.
John Garfield
John Garfield was an American actor of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances in socially conscious films.
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E.
Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone was a British actor best known for his definitive film portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (100)
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: Sterling Hayden Description of subject: Sterling Hayden was an American actor and World War II hero known for his rugged film roles and his clandestine service as a Marine and OSS operative.
Referenced by (83)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Terror in a Texas Town
subject surface form:
Terror in a Texas Town
subject surface form:
Terror in a Texas Town
subject surface form:
Johnny Guitar
subject surface form:
The Killing (1956 film)
subject surface form:
The Killing (1956 film)
subject surface form:
Johnny Clay
this entity surface form:
Sterling Hayden as John Garth
subject surface form:
Top Gun (1955 film)
this entity surface form:
Rick Martin – Sterling Hayden
subject surface form:
Michael Bowen (actor)
subject surface form:
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