Colm Meaney
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Colm Meaney is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, as well as numerous film and television appearances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colm Meaney canonical | 13 |
| Colm J. Meaney | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T661065 — 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: Colm Meaney Context triple: [Hell on Wheels, starred, Colm Meaney]
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A.
Colm Feore
Colm Feore is a Canadian-American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in works like "Bon Cop, Bad Cop," "The Chronicles of Riddick," and numerous Stratford Festival productions.
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B.
Billy Burke
Billy Burke is an American actor best known for playing Charlie Swan, Bella Swan’s father, in the Twilight film series.
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C.
Michael O'Laughlen
Michael O'Laughlen was an American Confederate sympathizer and associate of John Wilkes Booth who was implicated as a co-conspirator in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy was an American actor known for his powerful character roles in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed performances in movies like "First Blood" and on Broadway in productions such as "Death of a Salesman."
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E.
Dominic Kinnear
Dominic Kinnear is a Scottish-American soccer coach and former player best known for leading the Houston Dynamo to multiple MLS Cup titles in the mid-2000s.
- 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: Colm Meaney Target entity description: Colm Meaney is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, as well as numerous film and television appearances.
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A.
Colm Feore
Colm Feore is a Canadian-American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in works like "Bon Cop, Bad Cop," "The Chronicles of Riddick," and numerous Stratford Festival productions.
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B.
Billy Burke
Billy Burke is an American actor best known for playing Charlie Swan, Bella Swan’s father, in the Twilight film series.
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C.
Michael O'Laughlen
Michael O'Laughlen was an American Confederate sympathizer and associate of John Wilkes Booth who was implicated as a co-conspirator in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy was an American actor known for his powerful character roles in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed performances in movies like "First Blood" and on Broadway in productions such as "Death of a Salesman."
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E.
Dominic Kinnear
Dominic Kinnear is a Scottish-American soccer coach and former player best known for leading the Houston Dynamo to multiple MLS Cup titles in the mid-2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Colm Meaney Description of subject: Colm Meaney is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, as well as numerous film and television appearances.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Colm J. Meaney
subject surface form:
Thomas Durant (Hell on Wheels)
subject surface form:
The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film)