Charlie Korsmo
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Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charlie Korsmo canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3681414 — 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: Charlie Korsmo Context triple: [What About Bob?, starring, Charlie Korsmo]
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
John Kamps
John Kamps is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the family science fiction film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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C.
Larry Kellner
Larry Kellner is an American business executive best known for leading Continental Airlines as its chief executive officer.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Dale Doback
Dale Doback is a childish, unemployed middle-aged man who becomes a reluctant stepbrother and comedic foil to Brennan Huff in the film "Step Brothers."
- 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: Charlie Korsmo Target entity description: Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
John Kamps
John Kamps is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the family science fiction film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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C.
Larry Kellner
Larry Kellner is an American business executive best known for leading Continental Airlines as its chief executive officer.
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D.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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E.
Dale Doback
Dale Doback is a childish, unemployed middle-aged man who becomes a reluctant stepbrother and comedic foil to Brennan Huff in the film "Step Brothers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former child actor
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human ⓘ law professor ⓘ |
| basedIn | Cleveland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Yale Law School ⓘ |
| employer | Case Western Reserve University School of Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Korsmo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
corporate law
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environmental law ⓘ law ⓘ law and economics ⓘ securities regulation ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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family film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | tenured professor ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
film acting
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legal scholarship ⓘ public speaking ⓘ teaching law ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | transition from child actor to law professor ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Jack Banning in Hook
NERFINISHED
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Siggy Marvin in What About Bob? NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kid in Dick Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ William Lichter in Can’t Hardly Wait NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Can’t Hardly Wait
NERFINISHED
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Dick Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ Heat Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ Hook NERFINISHED ⓘ Men Don’t Leave NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cure NERFINISHED ⓘ The Doctor NERFINISHED ⓘ What About Bob? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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actor ⓘ law professor ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
film industry
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legal academia ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of law ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedAs |
law clerk
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policy analyst ⓘ |
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: Charlie Korsmo Description of subject: Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.