Dale Midkiff
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Dale Midkiff is an American actor best known for his leading role in the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King’s "Pet Sematary" and for numerous appearances in television movies and series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dale Midkiff canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8918828 — 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: Dale Midkiff Context triple: [Louis Creed, portrayedBy, Dale Midkiff]
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A.
Dennis Yost
Dennis Yost was an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s soft rock group Classics IV, noted for hits like "Spooky" and "Traces."
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B.
Ken Hodges
Ken Hodges was a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous film and television productions from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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C.
Jay C. Buckey Jr.
Jay C. Buckey Jr. is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Neurolab mission.
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D.
Duane Denison
Duane Denison is an American guitarist best known for his innovative, angular playing style in the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard and later work with acts like Tomahawk.
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E.
Cliff Clark
Cliff Clark was an American character actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, often appearing in supporting roles in Hollywood films.
- 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: Dale Midkiff Target entity description: Dale Midkiff is an American actor best known for his leading role in the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King’s "Pet Sematary" and for numerous appearances in television movies and series.
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A.
Dennis Yost
Dennis Yost was an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s soft rock group Classics IV, noted for hits like "Spooky" and "Traces."
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B.
Ken Hodges
Ken Hodges was a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous film and television productions from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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C.
Jay C. Buckey Jr.
Jay C. Buckey Jr. is an American physician and former NASA astronaut who flew as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Neurolab mission.
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D.
Duane Denison
Duane Denison is an American guitarist best known for his innovative, angular playing style in the influential noise rock band The Jesus Lizard and later work with acts like Tomahawk.
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E.
Cliff Clark
Cliff Clark was an American character actor active in the 1930s and 1940s, often appearing in supporting roles in Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dream Street (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Elvis and Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Comes Softly (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Finds a Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Takes Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ Love's Abiding Joy NERFINISHED ⓘ Love's Enduring Promise NERFINISHED ⓘ Love's Long Journey NERFINISHED ⓘ Love's Unending Legacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Love's Unfolding Dream NERFINISHED ⓘ Pet Sematary (1989 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Client (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magnificent Seven (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Time Trax NERFINISHED ⓘ Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkOf | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Midkiff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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horror ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Dale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| name | Dale Midkiff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | leading role in the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary ⓘ |
| notableWork | Pet Sematary (1989 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Darien Lambert
NERFINISHED
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Louis Creed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Elvis Presley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
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: Dale Midkiff Description of subject: Dale Midkiff is an American actor best known for his leading role in the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King’s "Pet Sematary" and for numerous appearances in television movies and series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.