Larry Hankin
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Larry Hankin is an American character actor and comedian known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in "Escape from Alcatraz," "Friends," and "Home Alone."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Hankin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T755269 — 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: Larry Hankin Context triple: [Escape from Alcatraz, starring, Larry Hankin]
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A.
John Kamps
John Kamps is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the family science fiction film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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B.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr. is a senior American business executive best known for his leadership role at Penske Automotive Group, a major international transportation services company.
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C.
Ted Cheesman
Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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D.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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E.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
- 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: Larry Hankin Target entity description: Larry Hankin is an American character actor and comedian known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in "Escape from Alcatraz," "Friends," and "Home Alone."
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A.
John Kamps
John Kamps is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the family science fiction film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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B.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr. is a senior American business executive best known for his leadership role at Penske Automotive Group, a major international transportation services company.
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C.
Ted Cheesman
Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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D.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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E.
Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is an American software engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the open-source software company Red Hat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Larry Hankin Description of subject: Larry Hankin is an American character actor and comedian known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in "Escape from Alcatraz," "Friends," and "Home Alone."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Escape from Alcatraz