DeWolf Hopper
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DeWolf Hopper was a popular American stage and film actor and singer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best remembered for his comic performances and recitations of the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| DeWolf Hopper canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9217338 — 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: DeWolf Hopper Context triple: [William Hopper, father, DeWolf Hopper]
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A.
Jerry Hopper
Jerry Hopper was an American film and television director active in the mid-20th century, known for directing features like "Secret of the Incas" and numerous episodes of popular TV series.
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B.
Hopper Penn
Hopper Penn is an American actor and model, best known as the son of actors Sean Penn and Robin Wright and for his roles in independent films.
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C.
Barret Zoph
Barret Zoph is a machine learning researcher known for his work on neural architecture search and contributions to deep learning at Google Brain.
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D.
Leo Farnsworth
Leo Farnsworth is a wealthy industrialist whose body is inhabited by the soul of a deceased football player in the romantic fantasy comedy film "Heaven Can Wait."
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E.
Hopps
Hopps is a surname most notably associated with Walter Hopps, an influential American museum director and curator known for championing contemporary art.
- 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: DeWolf Hopper Target entity description: DeWolf Hopper was a popular American stage and film actor and singer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best remembered for his comic performances and recitations of the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat."
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A.
Jerry Hopper
Jerry Hopper was an American film and television director active in the mid-20th century, known for directing features like "Secret of the Incas" and numerous episodes of popular TV series.
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B.
Hopper Penn
Hopper Penn is an American actor and model, best known as the son of actors Sean Penn and Robin Wright and for his roles in independent films.
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C.
Barret Zoph
Barret Zoph is a machine learning researcher known for his work on neural architecture search and contributions to deep learning at Google Brain.
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D.
Leo Farnsworth
Leo Farnsworth is a wealthy industrialist whose body is inhabited by the soul of a deceased football player in the romantic fantasy comedy film "Heaven Can Wait."
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E.
Hopps
Hopps is a surname most notably associated with Walter Hopps, an influential American museum director and curator known for championing contemporary art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1930s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1870s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
De Wolf Hopper
NERFINISHED
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DeWolf Hopper Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| child | William DeWolf Hopper Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1858-03-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1935-09-23 ⓘ |
| familyName | Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
musical theatre
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theatre ⓘ vaudeville ⓘ |
| fullName | William DeWolf Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| height | approximately 6 feet 5 inches ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic performances
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recitations of "Casey at the Bat" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
stage performances of "Casey at the Bat"
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vaudeville acts ⓘ |
| numberOfPerformancesOf"CaseyAtTheBat" | over 10,000 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ opera singer ⓘ singer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| performed | "Casey at the Bat" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kansas City
NERFINISHED
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Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse |
Ella Gardiner
NERFINISHED
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Hedda Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ Ida Mosher NERFINISHED ⓘ Lillian Glaser NERFINISHED ⓘ Nella Bergen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn |
Broadway theatre
NERFINISHED
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silent films ⓘ |
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: DeWolf Hopper Description of subject: DeWolf Hopper was a popular American stage and film actor and singer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best remembered for his comic performances and recitations of the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.