Spiner
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American actor
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Spiner is the surname of American actor Brent Spiner, best known for portraying the android Data in the Star Trek franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spiner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12810881 — 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: Spiner Context triple: [Brent Spiner, familyName, Spiner]
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A.
Spiro
Spiro is a masculine given name most notably borne by Spiro Agnew, the 39th vice president of the United States.
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B.
Stone Hopper
Stone Hopper is a fictional U.S. Navy officer and the older brother of protagonist Alex Hopper in the 2012 science fiction naval warfare film "Battleship."
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C.
Klepper
Klepper is the surname of American comedian and television host Jordan Klepper, known for his work on political satire programs such as The Daily Show.
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D.
Spinario
Spinario is an ancient Roman bronze sculpture depicting a boy removing a thorn from his foot, celebrated for its naturalistic detail and emotional realism.
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E.
Schafer
Schafer is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and academia.
- 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: Spiner Target entity description: Spiner is the surname of American actor Brent Spiner, best known for portraying the android Data in the Star Trek franchise.
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A.
Spiro
Spiro is a masculine given name most notably borne by Spiro Agnew, the 39th vice president of the United States.
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B.
Stone Hopper
Stone Hopper is a fictional U.S. Navy officer and the older brother of protagonist Alex Hopper in the 2012 science fiction naval warfare film "Battleship."
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C.
Klepper
Klepper is the surname of American comedian and television host Jordan Klepper, known for his work on political satire programs such as The Daily Show.
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D.
Spinario
Spinario is an ancient Roman bronze sculpture depicting a boy removing a thorn from his foot, celebrated for its naturalistic detail and emotional realism.
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E.
Schafer
Schafer is a surname of German origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Spiner Description of subject: Spiner is the surname of American actor Brent Spiner, best known for portraying the android Data in the Star Trek franchise.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Spiner