Howard Smith
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Howard Smith was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying gruff authority figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4567599 — 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: Howard Smith Context triple: [No Time for Sergeants (film), starring, Howard Smith]
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A.
Howard Dwight Smith
Howard Dwight Smith was an American architect best known for designing Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University.
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B.
Pat Hume
Pat Hume was an Irish political activist and community worker best known for her vital behind-the-scenes role in supporting the peace process in Northern Ireland alongside her husband, SDLP leader and Nobel laureate John Hume.
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C.
Bob Hughes
Bob Hughes is a long-running central character on the American soap opera "As the World Turns," known for his role as a dedicated doctor and family patriarch in the fictional town of Oakdale.
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D.
Jim Smith
Jim Smith was an English football manager best known for his influential spell in charge of Derby County and a long career managing numerous clubs in the English leagues.
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E.
Douglas Guilfoyle
Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
- 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: Howard Smith Target entity description: Howard Smith was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying gruff authority figures.
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A.
Howard Dwight Smith
Howard Dwight Smith was an American architect best known for designing Ohio Stadium at Ohio State University.
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B.
Pat Hume
Pat Hume was an Irish political activist and community worker best known for her vital behind-the-scenes role in supporting the peace process in Northern Ireland alongside her husband, SDLP leader and Nobel laureate John Hume.
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C.
Bob Hughes
Bob Hughes is a long-running central character on the American soap opera "As the World Turns," known for his role as a dedicated doctor and family patriarch in the fictional town of Oakdale.
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D.
Jim Smith
Jim Smith was an English football manager best known for his influential spell in charge of Derby County and a long career managing numerous clubs in the English leagues.
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E.
Douglas Guilfoyle
Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying gruff authority figures ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting roles in mid-20th-century films
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supporting roles in mid-20th-century television ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Howard Smith Description of subject: Howard Smith was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying gruff authority figures.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
No Time for Sergeants (film)