Harry Woods
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Harry Woods was an American character actor best known for his prolific portrayals of villains in numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Woods canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3664719 — 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: Harry Woods Context triple: [The Trail of '98 (1928 film), starring, Harry Woods]
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A.
John Wood
John Wood was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including roles in films such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "WarGames."
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B.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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C.
Nick Woods
Nick Woods is a musician known for being a member of the American folk music group The New Christy Minstrels.
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D.
Bryan Woodman
Bryan Woodman is a young, ambitious energy analyst whose personal tragedy and moral awakening drive one of the central storylines in the geopolitical drama film "Syriana."
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E.
Ray Wood
Ray Wood was an English footballer for Manchester United who survived the 1958 Munich air disaster.
- 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: Harry Woods Target entity description: Harry Woods was an American character actor best known for his prolific portrayals of villains in numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s.
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A.
John Wood
John Wood was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including roles in films such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "WarGames."
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B.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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C.
Nick Woods
Nick Woods is a musician known for being a member of the American folk music group The New Christy Minstrels.
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D.
Bryan Woodman
Bryan Woodman is a young, ambitious energy analyst whose personal tragedy and moral awakening drive one of the central storylines in the geopolitical drama film "Syriana."
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E.
Ray Wood
Ray Wood was an English footballer for Manchester United who survived the 1958 Munich air disaster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
United States entertainment industry
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surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| activePeriod |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Classical Hollywood cinema
|
| familyName | Woods ⓘ |
| filmographyIncludes |
Dodge City, Kansas
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surface form:
Dodge City
The Big Trail ⓘ The Lawless Nineties ⓘ The Man from Utah ⓘ The Ox-Bow Incident ⓘ The Spoilers ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
ⓘ
adventure film ⓘ crime film ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry ⓘ |
| industry | American cinema ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
silent film
ⓘ
sound film ⓘ |
| name | Harry Woods self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayals of villains
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roles in Hollywood Westerns ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacterType |
henchman
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outlaw ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Errol Flynn
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John Wayne ⓘ Tyrone Power ⓘ |
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: Harry Woods Description of subject: Harry Woods was an American character actor best known for his prolific portrayals of villains in numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.