Paul Sparks
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Paul Sparks is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in series like "Boardwalk Empire" and "House of Cards."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Sparks canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13119192 — 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: Paul Sparks Context triple: [Thoroughbreds, starring, Paul Sparks]
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A.
Beth Riesgraf
Beth Riesgraf is an American actress best known for playing the quirky thief Parker on the television series "Leverage."
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B.
Nicole Kassell
Nicole Kassell is an American film and television director and producer known for her work on acclaimed series such as Watchmen and The Leftovers.
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C.
Melissa Cobb
Melissa Cobb is an American film producer best known for her work on major animated features, including the Kung Fu Panda franchise.
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D.
Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins is an American actress known for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and John Carter, as well as various television series.
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E.
Alice Patten
Alice Patten is a British actress best known internationally for her role as an English documentary filmmaker in the acclaimed Indian film "Rang De Basanti."
- 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: Paul Sparks Target entity description: Paul Sparks is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in series like "Boardwalk Empire" and "House of Cards."
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A.
Beth Riesgraf
Beth Riesgraf is an American actress best known for playing the quirky thief Parker on the television series "Leverage."
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B.
Nicole Kassell
Nicole Kassell is an American film and television director and producer known for her work on acclaimed series such as Watchmen and The Leftovers.
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C.
Melissa Cobb
Melissa Cobb is an American film producer best known for her work on major animated features, including the Kung Fu Panda franchise.
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D.
Lynn Collins
Lynn Collins is an American actress known for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and John Carter, as well as various television series.
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E.
Alice Patten
Alice Patten is a British actress best known internationally for her role as an English documentary filmmaker in the acclaimed Indian film "Rang De Basanti."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
HBO
ⓘ
Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sparks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
American independent films
ⓘ
American theater productions ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying Mickey Doyle on Boardwalk Empire
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portraying Thomas Yates on House of Cards ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Paul Sparks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boardwalk Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boardwalk Empire (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Castle Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ Castle Rock (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Headshots NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Cards NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Cards (U.S. TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mud NERFINISHED ⓘ Mud (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Parkland NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel Getting Married NERFINISHED ⓘ Stealing Cars NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girlfriend Experience NERFINISHED ⓘ The Girlfriend Experience (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greatest Showman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Greatest Showman (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Missing Person NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Of NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Of (miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ Thoroughbreds NERFINISHED ⓘ Thoroughbreds (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Waco NERFINISHED ⓘ Waco (miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Paul Sparks Description of subject: Paul Sparks is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in series like "Boardwalk Empire" and "House of Cards."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.