Burton Stephen Lancaster
E428849
Burton Stephen Lancaster was an acclaimed American film actor and producer known for his athletic presence and powerful performances in classics such as "From Here to Eternity" and "Elmer Gantry."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burton Stephen Lancaster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4306164 — 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: Burton Stephen Lancaster Context triple: [Burt Lancaster, fullName, Burton Stephen Lancaster]
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A.
George Scott
George Scott was a power-hitting first baseman and three-time All-Star known for his strong defense and key role with the Boston Red Sox in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
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C.
Errol Thompson
Errol Thompson was a pioneering Jamaican recording engineer and producer known for his influential work in reggae and dub music during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
George Powell
George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
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E.
Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
- 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: Burton Stephen Lancaster Target entity description: Burton Stephen Lancaster was an acclaimed American film actor and producer known for his athletic presence and powerful performances in classics such as "From Here to Eternity" and "Elmer Gantry."
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A.
George Scott
George Scott was a power-hitting first baseman and three-time All-Star known for his strong defense and key role with the Boston Red Sox in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Sholto Douglas
Sholto Douglas was a senior Royal Air Force commander who played a key leadership role in British air operations during and after the Second World War.
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C.
Errol Thompson
Errol Thompson was a pioneering Jamaican recording engineer and producer known for his influential work in reggae and dub music during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
George Powell
George Powell was a 19th-century British sealer and explorer noted for his Antarctic voyages and co-discovery of several sub-Antarctic islands.
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E.
Ross Harrison
Ross Harrison was a pioneering American biologist and anatomist best known for developing the first successful tissue culture techniques, which laid the groundwork for modern cell biology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Actor
ⓘ
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Burton Stephen Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
heart attack
ⓘ
myocardial infarction ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-11-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-10-20 ⓘ |
| familyName | Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| givenName | Burton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
athletic screen presence
ⓘ
intense dramatic performances ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Burt Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Atlantic City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elmer Gantry NERFINISHED ⓘ From Here to Eternity NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet Smell of Success NERFINISHED ⓘ The Birdman of Alcatraz NERFINISHED ⓘ The Killers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Leopard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
circus acrobat ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
June Ernst
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norma Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Burton Stephen Lancaster Description of subject: Burton Stephen Lancaster was an acclaimed American film actor and producer known for his athletic presence and powerful performances in classics such as "From Here to Eternity" and "Elmer Gantry."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.