Walter Catlett

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Walter Catlett was an American character actor and comedian known for his scene-stealing comic roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Label Occurrences
Walter Catlett canonical 5

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf character actor
comedian
film actor
human
stage actor
activeIn Hollywood
activeInPeriod 1930s
1940s
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
familyName Catlett
genre comedy
givenName Walter
hasGenre screwball comedy
slapstick comedy
languageOfWorkOrName English
medium film
theatre
name Walter Catlett self-link
notableCharacteristic scene-stealing comic style
supporting roles
notableFor comic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s
notableWork A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
Bringing Up Baby
Here Comes the Groom
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
She Done Him Wrong
The Gay Divorcee
The Great Dictator
The Harvey Girls
The Merry Widow (1934)
surface form: The Merry Widow (1934 film)

The Music Man
surface form: The Music Man (1962 film)

The Palm Beach Story
Topper (film series)
surface form: Topper Returns

Yankee Doodle Dandy
occupation actor
comedian
film actor
stage actor
partOf Hollywood Golden Age
surface form: Golden Age of Hollywood
performerIn American cinema
sexOrGender male
workLocation Los Angeles

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: Walter Catlett
Description of subject: Walter Catlett was an American character actor and comedian known for his scene-stealing comic roles in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bringing Up Baby starring Walter Catlett
Platinum Blonde hasCastMember Walter Catlett
Once in a Lifetime (1932 film) stars Walter Catlett
It Started with Eve starring Walter Catlett
Walter Catlett name Walter Catlett self-link