R. G. Armstrong
E432478
R. G. Armstrong was an American character actor known for his rugged presence in numerous Westerns and genre films from the 1950s through the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| R. G. Armstrong canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4347213 — 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: R. G. Armstrong Context triple: [No Name on the Bullet (1959 film), starring, R. G. Armstrong]
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A.
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong is a British conductor renowned for his leadership roles with major opera companies, including his tenure as music director of Scottish Opera.
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B.
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong is an American museum director and curator best known for leading the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and its global network.
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C.
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including an American actor famous for his role in the 1933 film "King Kong" and a U.S. politician who served as a senator from Texas.
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D.
William Dewhurst
William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
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E.
Gordon Hodgkin
Gordon Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that often evoked emotional and remembered interiors.
- 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: R. G. Armstrong Target entity description: R. G. Armstrong was an American character actor known for his rugged presence in numerous Westerns and genre films from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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A.
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong is a British conductor renowned for his leadership roles with major opera companies, including his tenure as music director of Scottish Opera.
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B.
Richard Armstrong
Richard Armstrong is an American museum director and curator best known for leading the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and its global network.
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C.
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including an American actor famous for his role in the 1933 film "King Kong" and a U.S. politician who served as a senator from Texas.
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D.
William Dewhurst
William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
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E.
Gordon Hodgkin
Gordon Hodgkin was a British painter and printmaker renowned for his vibrant, abstract works that often evoked emotional and remembered interiors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| birthName | Robert Golden Armstrong Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-04-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-07-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
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horror film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hairColor | red ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.83 m ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | R. G. Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | rugged screen presence in Westerns and genre films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bonanza (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Children of the Corn NERFINISHED ⓘ El Dorado NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunsmoke (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ Predator NERFINISHED ⓘ Ride the High Country NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Valley (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Car NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dukes of Hazzard (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rifleman (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Zone (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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playwright ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Pleasant Grove, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Studio City, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Sheriff
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outlaw ⓘ preacher ⓘ rancher ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Ann Neale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
John Wayne
NERFINISHED
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Sam Peckinpah 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: R. G. Armstrong Description of subject: R. G. Armstrong was an American character actor known for his rugged presence in numerous Westerns and genre films from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.