Eric Close
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Eric Close is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Without a Trace" and "Nashville."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Close canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13384522 — 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: Eric Close Context triple: [Without a Trace, portrayedBy, Eric Close]
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A.
Michael Wilford
Michael Wilford was a British architect known for his postmodern designs and for continuing the work of James Stirling on prominent cultural and public buildings.
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B.
Tripp Vinson
Tripp Vinson is a Hollywood film producer known for working on large-scale action, thriller, and adventure movies.
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C.
Jack Watts
Jack Watts was a prominent British jockey known for his successful career riding top racehorses in the late 19th century.
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D.
Ben Eubanks
Ben Eubanks is an American entrepreneur known for co-founding a venture with attorney and political figure Cate Edwards.
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E.
Deryck Guyler
Deryck Guyler was a British character actor and comedian best known for his roles in mid-20th-century radio and television sitcoms.
- 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: Eric Close Target entity description: Eric Close is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Without a Trace" and "Nashville."
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A.
Michael Wilford
Michael Wilford was a British architect known for his postmodern designs and for continuing the work of James Stirling on prominent cultural and public buildings.
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B.
Tripp Vinson
Tripp Vinson is a Hollywood film producer known for working on large-scale action, thriller, and adventure movies.
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C.
Jack Watts
Jack Watts was a prominent British jockey known for his successful career riding top racehorses in the late 19th century.
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D.
Ben Eubanks
Ben Eubanks is an American entrepreneur known for co-founding a venture with attorney and political figure Cate Edwards.
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E.
Deryck Guyler
Deryck Guyler was a British character actor and comedian best known for his roles in mid-20th-century radio and television sitcoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American film
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American television ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Close ⓘ |
| genre |
country music drama
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crime drama ⓘ drama ⓘ science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
cable television series
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feature films ⓘ network television series ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
ABC
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Bradley Cooper ⓘ CBS ⓘ Clint Eastwood ⓘ NBC ⓘ USA Network ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Eric Close ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in Nashville
ⓘ
role in Without a Trace ⓘ television drama roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Sniper
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Chaos ⓘ Dark Skies ⓘ Nashville ⓘ Now and Again ⓘ Santa Barbara ⓘ Sisters ⓘ Suits ⓘ The Magnificent Seven (1998 TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Magnificent Seven (TV series)
Without a Trace ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| playedRole |
John Loengard in Dark Skies
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Lieutenant Colonel Kent in American Sniper ⓘ Martin Fitzgerald in Without a Trace ⓘ Michael Wiseman in Now and Again ⓘ Teddy Conrad in Nashville ⓘ Travis Tanner in Suits ⓘ Vincent in The Magnificent Seven (1998 TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Magnificent Seven (TV series)
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Eric Close Description of subject: Eric Close is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Without a Trace" and "Nashville."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.