Jack Gilford
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Jack Gilford was an American character actor and comedian known for his expressive face and memorable roles in film, television, and on Broadway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Gilford canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10354976 — 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: Jack Gilford Context triple: [Save the Tiger, starring, Jack Gilford]
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A.
Roger K. Furse
Roger K. Furse was a British costume and production designer renowned for his work on classic films, including being among the earliest recipients of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
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B.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
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C.
Philip Dunn
Philip Dunn is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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D.
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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E.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
- 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: Jack Gilford Target entity description: Jack Gilford was an American character actor and comedian known for his expressive face and memorable roles in film, television, and on Broadway.
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A.
Roger K. Furse
Roger K. Furse was a British costume and production designer renowned for his work on classic films, including being among the earliest recipients of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
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B.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
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C.
Philip Dunn
Philip Dunn is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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D.
Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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E.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Jacob Aaron Gellman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Riverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stomach cancer ⓘ |
| child | Joe Gilford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1908-07-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-06-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1949 ⓘ |
| eraOfBlacklisting | McCarthy era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| knownFor |
character roles
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expressive face ⓘ |
| name | Jack Gilford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | Save the Tiger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
NERFINISHED
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Car 54, Where Are You? NERFINISHED ⓘ Catch-22 NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocoon NERFINISHED ⓘ Cocoon: The Return NERFINISHED ⓘ Save the Tiger NERFINISHED ⓘ The Anderson Tapes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cracker Factory NERFINISHED ⓘ The Defenders NERFINISHED ⓘ The Duck Factory NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ed Sullivan Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Golden Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tonight Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| politicalActivity | left-wing activism ⓘ |
| spouse | Madeline Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterWork |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Broadway)
NERFINISHED
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Cabaret (Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ Once Upon a Mattress NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanoff and Juliet NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tenth Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The World of Sholom Aleichem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasBlacklisted | true ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Jack Gilford Description of subject: Jack Gilford was an American character actor and comedian known for his expressive face and memorable roles in film, television, and on Broadway.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
They Might Be Giants (film)