Lester Matthews
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Lester Matthews was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lester Matthews canonical | 2 |
| Milton Reid | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5349457 — 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: Lester Matthews Context triple: [The Purple Mask, hasCastMember, Lester Matthews]
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A.
Reggie Leach
Reggie Leach is a Canadian former NHL right winger best known as a prolific goal scorer for the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1970s, including a Conn Smythe Trophy–winning playoff run in 1976.
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B.
Maurice Lucas
Maurice Lucas was a powerful and intimidating All-Star forward best known for his key role with the Portland Trail Blazers’ 1977 NBA championship team and his tough, physical style of play.
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C.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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D.
Leroy Edwards
Leroy Edwards was an American professional basketball star of the 1930s and 1940s, widely regarded as one of the era’s dominant centers and an early pioneer of the modern post game.
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E.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
- 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: Lester Matthews Target entity description: Lester Matthews was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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A.
Reggie Leach
Reggie Leach is a Canadian former NHL right winger best known as a prolific goal scorer for the Philadelphia Flyers during the 1970s, including a Conn Smythe Trophy–winning playoff run in 1976.
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B.
Maurice Lucas
Maurice Lucas was a powerful and intimidating All-Star forward best known for his key role with the Portland Trail Blazers’ 1977 NBA championship team and his tough, physical style of play.
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C.
Clifton McNeely
Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
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D.
Leroy Edwards
Leroy Edwards was an American professional basketball star of the 1930s and 1940s, widely regarded as one of the era’s dominant centers and an early pioneer of the modern post game.
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E.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1900-06-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-06-05 ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| familyName | Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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drama film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Lester Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | supporting roles in Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dracula’s Daughter
NERFINISHED
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Invisible Man’s Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Raven (1935 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Son of Dr. Jekyll NERFINISHED ⓘ Werewolf of London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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Nottingham NERFINISHED ⓘ Nottinghamshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne Grey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Universal Pictures horror films
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Warner Bros. films ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1920s
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1930s ⓘ 1940s ⓘ 1950s ⓘ 1960s ⓘ |
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: Lester Matthews Description of subject: Lester Matthews was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Milton Reid