Steve Wood
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Steve Wood is a fictional character portrayed by actor James Marsden, best known as one of the central figures in the true-crime drama miniseries "The Staircase."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Wood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13257557 — 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: Steve Wood Context triple: [James Marsden, characterPortrayed, Steve Wood]
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A.
David Wood
David Wood is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, as well as for his contributions as a playwright and children's author.
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B.
Simon Woods
Simon Woods is a British actor best known for his role as Charles Bingley in the 2005 film adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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C.
Don Woods
Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
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D.
Ken Wheat
Ken Wheat is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Pitch Black," which introduced the character Riddick.
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E.
Jim Woodruff
Jim Woodruff was an American businessman and civic leader from Georgia, best known for his role in promoting regional development projects in the southeastern United States.
- 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: Steve Wood Target entity description: Steve Wood is a fictional character portrayed by actor James Marsden, best known as one of the central figures in the true-crime drama miniseries "The Staircase."
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A.
David Wood
David Wood is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, as well as for his contributions as a playwright and children's author.
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B.
Simon Woods
Simon Woods is a British actor best known for his role as Charles Bingley in the 2005 film adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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C.
Don Woods
Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
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D.
Ken Wheat
Ken Wheat is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the science fiction film "Pitch Black," which introduced the character Riddick.
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E.
Jim Woodruff
Jim Woodruff was an American businessman and civic leader from Georgia, best known for his role in promoting regional development projects in the southeastern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Staircase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | real events depicted in The Staircase case ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| genre | true-crime drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television miniseries ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Marsden 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: Steve Wood Description of subject: Steve Wood is a fictional character portrayed by actor James Marsden, best known as one of the central figures in the true-crime drama miniseries "The Staircase."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.