John Gary Yurosek
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John Gary Yurosek, better known by his stage name Gary Lockwood, is an American actor most recognized for his role as astronaut Frank Poole in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Gary Yurosek canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9194711 — 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: John Gary Yurosek Context triple: [Gary Lockwood, birthName, John Gary Yurosek]
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A.
Michael Vavitch
Michael Vavitch was a silent-era film actor known for his role in the 1924 drama "The Red Lily."
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B.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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C.
Marc Mezvinsky
Marc Mezvinsky is an American investment banker best known as the husband of Chelsea Clinton and son-in-law of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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D.
Burt Grusinsky
Burt Grusinsky is the conflicted nightclub manager and central figure in the crime drama film "We Own the Night," torn between his family’s law-enforcement legacy and his ties to the criminal underworld.
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E.
Frank Yaconelli
Frank Yaconelli was an Italian-American character actor and musician known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: John Gary Yurosek Target entity description: John Gary Yurosek, better known by his stage name Gary Lockwood, is an American actor most recognized for his role as astronaut Frank Poole in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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A.
Michael Vavitch
Michael Vavitch was a silent-era film actor known for his role in the 1924 drama "The Red Lily."
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B.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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C.
Marc Mezvinsky
Marc Mezvinsky is an American investment banker best known as the husband of Chelsea Clinton and son-in-law of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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D.
Burt Grusinsky
Burt Grusinsky is the conflicted nightclub manager and central figure in the crime drama film "We Own the Night," torn between his family’s law-enforcement legacy and his ties to the criminal underworld.
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E.
Frank Yaconelli
Frank Yaconelli was an Italian-American character actor and musician known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Firecreek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Model Shop NERFINISHED ⓘ Splendor in the Grass NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lieutenant NERFINISHED ⓘ The Magic Sword NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | John Gary Yurosek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-02-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | UCLA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Slovenian descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Yurosek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
motion picture acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| hasHairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0516876 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd |
1972
ⓘ
1988 ⓘ |
| marriageStart |
1966
ⓘ
1982 ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Frank Poole
NERFINISHED
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Gary Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
2001: A Space Odyssey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Firecreek NERFINISHED ⓘ Model Shop NERFINISHED ⓘ Splendor in the Grass NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lieutenant (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
stunt performer ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Denise DuBarry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stefanie Powers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Gary Lockwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–2010s ⓘ |
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: John Gary Yurosek Description of subject: John Gary Yurosek, better known by his stage name Gary Lockwood, is an American actor most recognized for his role as astronaut Frank Poole in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.