Hodiak
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Hodiak is a surname most notably associated with American actor John Hodiak, known for his film and stage roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hodiak canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6924801 — 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: Hodiak Context triple: [John Hodiak, familyName, Hodiak]
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A.
De Long
De Long is a surname variant most commonly associated with individuals of European, particularly French or Dutch, origin.
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B.
Pulaski
Pulaski is a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line rapid transit station serving the city's West Side.
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C.
Bonger
Bonger is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the key figure in preserving and promoting Vincent van Gogh’s artistic legacy.
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D.
Hobuck
Hobuck is the original settlement name that preceded the modern city of Hoboken, New Jersey.
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E.
Mack Maine
Mack Maine is an American rapper and record executive best known as the president of Young Money Entertainment and a close collaborator of Lil Wayne.
- 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: Hodiak Target entity description: Hodiak is a surname most notably associated with American actor John Hodiak, known for his film and stage roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
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A.
De Long
De Long is a surname variant most commonly associated with individuals of European, particularly French or Dutch, origin.
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B.
Pulaski
Pulaski is a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line rapid transit station serving the city's West Side.
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C.
Bonger
Bonger is a Dutch surname most notably associated with Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, the key figure in preserving and promoting Vincent van Gogh’s artistic legacy.
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D.
Hobuck
Hobuck is the original settlement name that preceded the modern city of Hoboken, New Jersey.
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E.
Mack Maine
Mack Maine is an American rapper and record executive best known as the president of Young Money Entertainment and a close collaborator of Lil Wayne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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American actress ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1955 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-04-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1955-10-19 ⓘ |
| familyName | Hodiak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama films
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film noir ⓘ war films ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1953 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1946 ⓘ |
| notableBearer | John Hodiak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Bell for Adano
NERFINISHED
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Lifeboat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Harvey Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
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stage actor ⓘ |
| performedIn | Broadway theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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| placeOfDeath | Tarzana, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne Baxter 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: Hodiak Description of subject: Hodiak is a surname most notably associated with American actor John Hodiak, known for his film and stage roles in the 1940s and 1950s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.