Larry Ferguson
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Larry Ferguson is an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor best known for co-writing the fantasy film "Highlander" and working on action movies such as "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "The Hunt for Red October."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Ferguson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3988669 — 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 Ferguson Context triple: [Highlander, screenwriter, Larry Ferguson]
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A.
Glenn Ferguson
Glenn Ferguson is a former Northern Irish footballer and prolific striker best known for his long, successful career in the Irish League and his goal-scoring exploits with clubs including Linfield FC.
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B.
Ray McKinnon
Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
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C.
Bob McFadden
Bob McFadden was an American voice actor and impressionist known for his work in animated television specials and cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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D.
Gary Morton
Gary Morton was an American comedian and television producer best known as the second husband of Lucille Ball and for his behind-the-scenes work on her later TV projects.
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E.
Larry Drinkard
Larry Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers.
- 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 Ferguson Target entity description: Larry Ferguson is an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor best known for co-writing the fantasy film "Highlander" and working on action movies such as "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "The Hunt for Red October."
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A.
Glenn Ferguson
Glenn Ferguson is a former Northern Irish footballer and prolific striker best known for his long, successful career in the Irish League and his goal-scoring exploits with clubs including Linfield FC.
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B.
Ray McKinnon
Ray McKinnon is an American actor, writer, producer, and director known for his character roles in film and television and for creating the acclaimed series "Rectify."
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C.
Bob McFadden
Bob McFadden was an American voice actor and impressionist known for his work in animated television specials and cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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D.
Gary Morton
Gary Morton was an American comedian and television producer best known as the second husband of Lucille Ball and for his behind-the-scenes work on her later TV projects.
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E.
Larry Drinkard
Larry Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
Beverly Hills Cop II
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Highlander ⓘ The Hunt for Red October ⓘ |
| genre |
action comedy film
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action thriller film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-writing the fantasy film "Highlander"
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writing action films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beverly Hills Cop II
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Highlander ⓘ The Hunt for Red October ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wroteGenre |
action
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fantasy ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
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 Ferguson Description of subject: Larry Ferguson is an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor best known for co-writing the fantasy film "Highlander" and working on action movies such as "Beverly Hills Cop II" and "The Hunt for Red October."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.