Durning
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Durning is a surname most notably associated with American character actor Charles Durning, renowned for his prolific film and stage career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durning canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5569770 — 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: Durning Context triple: [Charles Durning, familyName, Durning]
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A.
Durante
Durante is the birth name of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, renowned author of the Divine Comedy.
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B.
Dimasa
Dimasa is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Dimasa people in parts of Northeast India, including the Barak Valley region.
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C.
Duro
Duro is a music artist known for creating the track featured in the song "Glitter."
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D.
Dureraum
Dureraum is the iconic Busan Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea, known as the main venue of the Busan International Film Festival and for its striking architectural design.
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E.
Nzaman
Nzaman is a dialect of the Fang language spoken by Fang communities in Central Africa.
- 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: Durning Target entity description: Durning is a surname most notably associated with American character actor Charles Durning, renowned for his prolific film and stage career.
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A.
Durante
Durante is the birth name of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, renowned author of the Divine Comedy.
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B.
Dimasa
Dimasa is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Dimasa people in parts of Northeast India, including the Barak Valley region.
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C.
Duro
Duro is a music artist known for creating the track featured in the song "Glitter."
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D.
Dureraum
Dureraum is the iconic Busan Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea, known as the main venue of the Busan International Film Festival and for its striking architectural design.
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E.
Nzaman
Nzaman is a dialect of the Fang language spoken by Fang communities in Central Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ surname ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsInCareer | 1960s–2010s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award
NERFINISHED
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Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-02-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-12-24 ⓘ |
| familyName | Durning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground | Irish-American ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Charles Durning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Private First Class ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dog Day Afternoon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
O Brother, Where Art Thou? NERFINISHED ⓘ Rescue Me NERFINISHED ⓘ The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sting NERFINISHED ⓘ Tootsie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Highland Falls, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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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: Durning Description of subject: Durning is a surname most notably associated with American character actor Charles Durning, renowned for his prolific film and stage career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.