Rex Ingram
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Rex Ingram was an American character actor best known for his powerful screen presence in mid-20th-century films, including notable roles in movies such as "The Thief of Bagdad" and "Cabin in the Sky."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rex Ingram canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8291569 — 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: Rex Ingram Context triple: [No Time for Love, castMember, Rex Ingram]
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A.
Rex Ingram
Rex Ingram was a prominent Irish-American silent film director of the early 20th century, known for his visually innovative and epic productions in Hollywood.
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B.
Lloyd Bacon
Lloyd Bacon was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood during the 1920s–1940s, including numerous musicals and comedies for Warner Bros.
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C.
John Spottiswoode
John Spottiswoode was a 16th-century Scottish minister and theologian who became Archbishop of St Andrews and a leading figure in the early Church of Scotland.
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D.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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E.
Don Griffith
Don Griffith was a Disney art director and layout artist known for his visual contributions to animated films such as "The Rescuers."
- 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: Rex Ingram Target entity description: Rex Ingram was an American character actor best known for his powerful screen presence in mid-20th-century films, including notable roles in movies such as "The Thief of Bagdad" and "Cabin in the Sky."
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A.
Rex Ingram
Rex Ingram was a prominent Irish-American silent film director of the early 20th century, known for his visually innovative and epic productions in Hollywood.
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B.
Lloyd Bacon
Lloyd Bacon was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work in Hollywood during the 1920s–1940s, including numerous musicals and comedies for Warner Bros.
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C.
John Spottiswoode
John Spottiswoode was a 16th-century Scottish minister and theologian who became Archbishop of St Andrews and a leading figure in the early Church of Scotland.
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D.
William C. deMille
William C. deMille was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director of the silent and early sound era, known for his sophisticated dramas and as the brother of famed director Cecil B. DeMille.
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E.
Don Griffith
Don Griffith was a Disney art director and layout artist known for his visual contributions to animated films such as "The Rescuers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1960s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1910s ⓘ |
| birthName | Rex Ingram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1895-10-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-09-19 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ingram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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fantasy film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Rex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | powerful screen presence ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Rex Ingram NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anna Lucasta
NERFINISHED
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Cabin in the Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ God’s Little Acre NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Pastures NERFINISHED ⓘ Moonrise NERFINISHED ⓘ Sahara NERFINISHED ⓘ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thief of Bagdad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cairo, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hollywood, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| race | Black ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
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: Rex Ingram Description of subject: Rex Ingram was an American character actor best known for his powerful screen presence in mid-20th-century films, including notable roles in movies such as "The Thief of Bagdad" and "Cabin in the Sky."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Thief of Bagdad (1940 film)