Walter Edward Cox
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Walter Edward Cox, better known by his stage name Bud Cort, is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Harold in the cult classic film "Harold and Maude."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walter Edward Cox canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10287155 — 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: Walter Edward Cox Context triple: [Bud Cort, birthName, Walter Edward Cox]
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A.
Samuel Lane Loomis
Samuel Lane Loomis was an American Congregational minister, educator, and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
William Gemmell Cochran
William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent Scottish statistician known for his foundational contributions to experimental design, sampling techniques, and the development of modern statistical theory.
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C.
Edward F. Cox
Edward F. Cox is an American lawyer and political figure best known as the son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and a longtime leader within the New York Republican Party.
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D.
Guyton Alston
Guyton Alston was a key founding figure behind the prominent U.S. law firm Alston & Bird.
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E.
John W. Harvey
John W. Harvey is an astronomer recognized for his significant contributions to solar physics and helioseismology, for which he received the prestigious George Ellery Hale Prize.
- 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: Walter Edward Cox Target entity description: Walter Edward Cox, better known by his stage name Bud Cort, is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Harold in the cult classic film "Harold and Maude."
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A.
Samuel Lane Loomis
Samuel Lane Loomis was an American Congregational minister, educator, and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
William Gemmell Cochran
William Gemmell Cochran was a prominent Scottish statistician known for his foundational contributions to experimental design, sampling techniques, and the development of modern statistical theory.
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C.
Edward F. Cox
Edward F. Cox is an American lawyer and political figure best known as the son-in-law of President Richard Nixon and a longtime leader within the New York Republican Party.
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D.
Guyton Alston
Guyton Alston was a key founding figure behind the prominent U.S. law firm Alston & Bird.
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E.
John W. Harvey
John W. Harvey is an astronomer recognized for his significant contributions to solar physics and helioseismology, for which he received the prestigious George Ellery Hale Prize.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| birthName | Walter Edward Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | Harold and Maude NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-03-29 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish American ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasGivenVoiceTo | Toy Story 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brewster McCloud
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dogma NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold and Maude NERFINISHED ⓘ M*A*S*H NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Brewster McCloud (1970 film)
NERFINISHED
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Dogma (1999 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold and Maude (1971 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ M*A*S*H (1970 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Rochelle, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Harold Chasen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stageName | Bud Cort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Walter Edward Cox Description of subject: Walter Edward Cox, better known by his stage name Bud Cort, is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Harold in the cult classic film "Harold and Maude."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.