Frank Sutton
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Frank Sutton was an American character actor best known for his comedic role as the hot-tempered Sergeant Vince Carter on the 1960s television series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Sutton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9795502 — 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: Frank Sutton Context triple: [The Dummy, stars, Frank Sutton]
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A.
Frank Lubey
Frank Lubey is a minor but symbolically important neighbor in Arthur Miller’s play "All My Sons," whose interest in astrology and everyday normalcy contrasts with the Keller family’s buried guilt.
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B.
Ken Morrow
Ken Morrow is an American former defenseman best known for winning gold with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and then capturing four consecutive Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders.
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C.
Charles Walters
Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Dennis Awtrey
Dennis Awtrey is a former American professional basketball center known for his defensive play and role as a key contributor on several NBA teams during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Stephen Burbank
Stephen Burbank is a prominent legal scholar and professor known for his expertise in civil procedure and complex litigation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
- 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: Frank Sutton Target entity description: Frank Sutton was an American character actor best known for his comedic role as the hot-tempered Sergeant Vince Carter on the 1960s television series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
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A.
Frank Lubey
Frank Lubey is a minor but symbolically important neighbor in Arthur Miller’s play "All My Sons," whose interest in astrology and everyday normalcy contrasts with the Keller family’s buried guilt.
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B.
Ken Morrow
Ken Morrow is an American former defenseman best known for winning gold with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and then capturing four consecutive Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders.
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C.
Charles Walters
Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Dennis Awtrey
Dennis Awtrey is a former American professional basketball center known for his defensive play and role as a key contributor on several NBA teams during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Stephen Burbank
Stephen Burbank is a prominent legal scholar and professor known for his expertise in civil procedure and complex litigation at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1960s American television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Four Boys and a Gun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Andy Griffith Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Satan Bug NERFINISHED ⓘ Town Without Pity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Clarksville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-10-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1974-06-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Sutton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0840107 ⓘ |
| knownFor | portrayal of hot-tempered drill instructor characters ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Frank Sutton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Sergeant Vince Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Clarksville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Shreveport, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedRankOfCharacter | Sergeant ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Toby Igler Sutton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesGenreOfNotableWork | situation comedy ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–1974 ⓘ |
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: Frank Sutton Description of subject: Frank Sutton was an American character actor best known for his comedic role as the hot-tempered Sergeant Vince Carter on the 1960s television series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.