Charles Tannen
E319661
Charles Tannen was an American character actor who appeared in numerous films and television shows from the 1930s through the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Tannen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3018154 — 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: Charles Tannen Context triple: [Gorilla at Large, hasCastMember, Charles Tannen]
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A.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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B.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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C.
Joseph Halpern
Joseph Halpern is a prominent computer scientist and logician known for his influential work in reasoning about knowledge, uncertainty, and distributed systems.
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D.
Marty Katz
Marty Katz is a film producer known for his work on movies such as the World War II drama "The Great Raid."
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E.
Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
- 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: Charles Tannen Target entity description: Charles Tannen was an American character actor who appeared in numerous films and television shows from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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A.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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B.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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C.
Joseph Halpern
Joseph Halpern is a prominent computer scientist and logician known for his influential work in reasoning about knowledge, uncertainty, and distributed systems.
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D.
Marty Katz
Marty Katz is a film producer known for his work on movies such as the World War II drama "The Great Raid."
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E.
Dan Futterman
Dan Futterman is an American actor and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter known for writing the film "Capote" and co-creating the TV series "In Treatment."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Tannen ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| name | Charles Tannen self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in American films
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supporting roles in American television series ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| periodOfActivityEnd | 1960s ⓘ |
| periodOfActivityStart | 1930s ⓘ |
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: Charles Tannen Description of subject: Charles Tannen was an American character actor who appeared in numerous films and television shows from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.