Fred Ward
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Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fred Ward canonical | 34 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T755267 — 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: Fred Ward Context triple: [Escape from Alcatraz, starring, Fred Ward]
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A.
David Hennings
David Hennings is a film cinematographer known for his work on major studio comedies and other feature films, including "Horrible Bosses."
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B.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
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C.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver was an influential American television executive best known for shaping early network TV programming and serving as president of NBC.
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E.
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from action and science fiction to drama and comedy, including iconic roles in movies like "Escape from New York," "The Thing," and "Tombstone."
- 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: Fred Ward Target entity description: Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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A.
David Hennings
David Hennings is a film cinematographer known for his work on major studio comedies and other feature films, including "Horrible Bosses."
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B.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
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C.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver was an influential American television executive best known for shaping early network TV programming and serving as president of NBC.
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E.
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from action and science fiction to drama and comedy, including iconic roles in movies like "Escape from New York," "The Thing," and "Tombstone."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Fred Ward Description of subject: Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Escape from Alcatraz"
subject linked to:
realPerson John Anglin
subject linked to:
Southern Comfort
subject linked to:
Remo Williams in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
subject linked to:
film "Road Trip"