Steve Cochran
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Steve Cochran was an American film and television actor best known for his tough-guy roles in crime dramas and film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Cochran canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986057 — 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: Steve Cochran Context triple: [The Big Operator, castMember, Steve Cochran]
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A.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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B.
Kevin Chapman
Kevin Chapman is an American actor known for his tough, blue-collar character roles in film and television, including prominent parts in series like "Person of Interest" and "City on a Hill."
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C.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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D.
Neal Dodson
Neal Dodson is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and genre films, frequently collaborating with director J.C. Chandor.
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E.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
- 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: Steve Cochran Target entity description: Steve Cochran was an American film and television actor best known for his tough-guy roles in crime dramas and film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.
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A.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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B.
Kevin Chapman
Kevin Chapman is an American actor known for his tough, blue-collar character roles in film and television, including prominent parts in series like "Person of Interest" and "City on a Hill."
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C.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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D.
Neal Dodson
Neal Dodson is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and genre films, frequently collaborating with director J.C. Chandor.
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E.
Mike Krieger
Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Steve Cochran Description of subject: Steve Cochran was an American film and television actor best known for his tough-guy roles in crime dramas and film noir during the 1940s and 1950s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Big Operator