Marjoe Gortner
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Marjoe Gortner is an American former child evangelist and actor best known for the Oscar-winning documentary "Marjoe," which exposed his experiences as a charismatic Pentecostal preacher.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marjoe Gortner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6511814 — 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: Marjoe Gortner Context triple: [Candy Clark, spouse, Marjoe Gortner]
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A.
Daniel Troob
Daniel Troob is an American orchestrator and arranger best known for his work on numerous Disney animated film scores and Broadway musicals.
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B.
Milburn Stone
Milburn Stone was an American actor best known for his long-running role as Doc Adams on the television western series "Gunsmoke."
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C.
Willie E. Gary
Willie E. Gary is a prominent American trial lawyer and philanthropist known for winning massive jury verdicts in high-profile civil cases and for his significant charitable contributions.
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D.
Jock Mahoney
Jock Mahoney was an American actor and stuntman best known for his roles in Westerns and adventure films, including portraying Tarzan in the early 1960s.
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E.
Darold Knowles
Darold Knowles is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his role in the Oakland Athletics' early-1970s championship teams and for pitching in all seven games of the 1973 World Series.
- 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: Marjoe Gortner Target entity description: Marjoe Gortner is an American former child evangelist and actor best known for the Oscar-winning documentary "Marjoe," which exposed his experiences as a charismatic Pentecostal preacher.
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A.
Daniel Troob
Daniel Troob is an American orchestrator and arranger best known for his work on numerous Disney animated film scores and Broadway musicals.
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B.
Milburn Stone
Milburn Stone was an American actor best known for his long-running role as Doc Adams on the television western series "Gunsmoke."
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C.
Willie E. Gary
Willie E. Gary is a prominent American trial lawyer and philanthropist known for winning massive jury verdicts in high-profile civil cases and for his significant charitable contributions.
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D.
Jock Mahoney
Jock Mahoney was an American actor and stuntman best known for his roles in Westerns and adventure films, including portraying Tarzan in the early 1960s.
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E.
Darold Knowles
Darold Knowles is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his role in the Oakland Athletics' early-1970s championship teams and for pitching in all seven games of the 1973 World Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary film subject
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former child evangelist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| actedIn |
Acapulco Gold
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Earthquake NERFINISHED ⓘ Food of the Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ Starcrash NERFINISHED ⓘ The Food of the Gods NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gun and the Pulpit NERFINISHED ⓘ The Marcus-Nelson Murders NERFINISHED ⓘ Viva Knievel! NERFINISHED ⓘ When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeAsEvangelistUntil | 1960s ⓘ |
| awardReceivedByWork | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for "Marjoe" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| beganActingCareer | 1970s ⓘ |
| birthName | Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-01-14 ⓘ |
| documentaryMarjoeReleaseYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| earlyLifeActivity | performed marriages and revivals as a child ⓘ |
| exposedPractice |
manipulative fundraising techniques
ⓘ
staged faith healings ⓘ |
| familyName | Gortner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
exploitation film ⓘ horror film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Hugh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marjoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.78 m ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a child preacher
ⓘ
exposing fraudulent practices in revivalist preaching ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Marjoe Gortner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | publicly renounced his faith-healing ministry ⓘ |
| notableWork | Marjoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
evangelist ⓘ film actor ⓘ musician ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| parentOccupation | Pentecostal preachers ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Long Beach, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | charismatic preacher ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | Pentecostalism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Candy Clark
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kathy Gortner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | documentary film "Marjoe" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Marjoe Gortner Description of subject: Marjoe Gortner is an American former child evangelist and actor best known for the Oscar-winning documentary "Marjoe," which exposed his experiences as a charismatic Pentecostal preacher.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.