Kenneth Tobey
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Kenneth Tobey was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction and adventure films, including "The Thing from Another World."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kenneth Tobey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10813323 — 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: Kenneth Tobey Context triple: [The Search for Bridey Murphy (1956 film), starring, Kenneth Tobey]
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A.
Laird Cregar
Laird Cregar was an American character actor of the early 1940s, known for his imposing presence and memorable performances in film noir and period dramas.
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B.
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker known for his athletic, romantic leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and later for directing and starring in the survival adventure "The Naked Prey."
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C.
Michael Jace
Michael Jace is an American actor best known for his role as LAPD Officer Julien Lowe on the television series "The Shield."
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D.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
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E.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Whitman was an American actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Mark."
- 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: Kenneth Tobey Target entity description: Kenneth Tobey was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction and adventure films, including "The Thing from Another World."
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A.
Laird Cregar
Laird Cregar was an American character actor of the early 1940s, known for his imposing presence and memorable performances in film noir and period dramas.
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B.
Cornel Wilde
Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker known for his athletic, romantic leading roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and later for directing and starring in the survival adventure "The Naked Prey."
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C.
Michael Jace
Michael Jace is an American actor best known for his role as LAPD Officer Julien Lowe on the television series "The Shield."
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D.
Roy Harlow
Roy Harlow was the husband of silent film actress Marie Mosquini, known primarily in relation to her career in early American cinema.
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E.
Stuart Whitman
Stuart Whitman was an American actor known for his rugged leading-man roles in film and television during the 1950s and 1960s, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "The Mark."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Airplane!
NERFINISHED
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Big Top Pee-wee NERFINISHED ⓘ Billy Jack Goes to Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Gremlins 2: The New Batch NERFINISHED ⓘ Gunfight at the O.K. Corral NERFINISHED ⓘ It Came from Beneath the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms NERFINISHED ⓘ The Candidate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gunfighter NERFINISHED ⓘ The High and the Mighty NERFINISHED ⓘ The Howling NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thing from Another World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wild Blue Yonder NERFINISHED ⓘ Walking Tall NERFINISHED ⓘ Whirlybirds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Jesse Kenneth Tobey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-03-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-12-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
NERFINISHED
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| familyName | Tobey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Jesse
NERFINISHED
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Kenneth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Kenneth Tobey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big Top Pee-wee
NERFINISHED
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It Came from Beneath the Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thing from Another World NERFINISHED ⓘ Whirlybirds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oakland, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rancho Mirage, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Judy Graubart
NERFINISHED
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June Tobey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–1990s ⓘ |
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: Kenneth Tobey Description of subject: Kenneth Tobey was an American character actor best known for his roles in 1950s science fiction and adventure films, including "The Thing from Another World."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.