Jeff Corey
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Jeff Corey was an American character actor and influential acting teacher known for his work in film and television from the 1940s through the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeff Corey canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4567747 — 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: Jeff Corey Context triple: [The Boston Strangler, starred, Jeff Corey]
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A.
Corey Gaines
Corey Gaines is an American basketball coach and former player best known for leading the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury to a championship as head coach.
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B.
Brant Daugherty
Brant Daugherty is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "Pretty Little Liars" and films including the "Fifty Shades" franchise.
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C.
Corey Allen
Corey Allen was an American actor and director best known for his role as the gang leader Buzz Gunderson in the classic 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause."
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D.
Corey Palent
Corey Palent is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer of the daytime talk program "The Jennifer Hudson Show."
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E.
Andrew Gant
Andrew Gant is a British composer, singer, author, and academic known for his work in choral music and his writings on the history of English church music and carols.
- 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: Jeff Corey Target entity description: Jeff Corey was an American character actor and influential acting teacher known for his work in film and television from the 1940s through the 1990s.
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A.
Corey Gaines
Corey Gaines is an American basketball coach and former player best known for leading the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury to a championship as head coach.
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B.
Brant Daugherty
Brant Daugherty is an American actor known for his roles in television series like "Pretty Little Liars" and films including the "Fifty Shades" franchise.
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C.
Corey Allen
Corey Allen was an American actor and director best known for his role as the gang leader Buzz Gunderson in the classic 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause."
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D.
Corey Palent
Corey Palent is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer of the daytime talk program "The Jennifer Hudson Show."
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E.
Andrew Gant
Andrew Gant is a British composer, singer, author, and academic known for his work in choral music and his writings on the history of English church music and carols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
acting teacher
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInYears | 1940s–1990s ⓘ |
| birthName | Arthur Zwerling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | fall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-08-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-08-16 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Jewish ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | character acting ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Jeff Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American character actor in film and television
ⓘ
influential acting teacher in Hollywood ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
NERFINISHED
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Little Big Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Seconds NERFINISHED ⓘ Superman (1978 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cincinnati Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Race NERFINISHED ⓘ The Killers (1946 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wild One NERFINISHED ⓘ True Grit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
acting teacher
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actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalEvent | Hollywood blacklist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Hope Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| student |
Anthony Perkins
NERFINISHED
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Barbra Streisand NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Nicholson NERFINISHED ⓘ James Dean NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Fonda NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonard Nimoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Rita Moreno NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| taughtProfession | actors ⓘ |
| wasBlacklisted | true ⓘ |
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: Jeff Corey Description of subject: Jeff Corey was an American character actor and influential acting teacher known for his work in film and television from the 1940s through the 1990s.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.