Donald Crisp
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American film actor
British emigrant to the United States
film actor
film director
human
silent film actor
Donald Crisp was a British-born American film actor and director best known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in numerous silent and sound films.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donald Crisp canonical | 26 |
| Donald Crisp as Battling Burrows | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T450175 — 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: Donald Crisp Context triple: [The Black Pirate, starring, Donald Crisp]
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A.
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
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B.
Clifton Daniel
Clifton Daniel was an American newspaper editor and managing editor of The New York Times, known also as the son-in-law of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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C.
George Sanders
George Sanders was a British actor known for his sophisticated, sardonic screen presence and acclaimed performances in classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning role in "All About Eve."
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D.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
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E.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
- 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: Donald Crisp Target entity description: Donald Crisp was a British-born American film actor and director best known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in numerous silent and sound films.
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A.
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
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B.
Clifton Daniel
Clifton Daniel was an American newspaper editor and managing editor of The New York Times, known also as the son-in-law of U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
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C.
George Sanders
George Sanders was a British actor known for his sophisticated, sardonic screen presence and acclaimed performances in classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning role in "All About Eve."
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D.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
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E.
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson was an American film and television director, producer, and writer known for works such as "Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Donald Crisp Description of subject: Donald Crisp was a British-born American film actor and director best known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in numerous silent and sound films.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)
this entity surface form:
Donald Crisp as Battling Burrows