Chris Cooper
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Chris Cooper is an American character actor known for his intense, nuanced performances in films such as "American Beauty," "Adaptation," and "Seabiscuit."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chris Cooper canonical | 29 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T849502 — 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: Chris Cooper Context triple: [A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring, Chris Cooper]
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A.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker known for his tough, stoic characters in films such as "The Fugitive," "No Country for Old Men," and "Men in Black."
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B.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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C.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
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D.
Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook was an American actor renowned for his Emmy- and Tony-winning career in film, television, and theater, particularly for his acclaimed portrayal of Mark Twain in his long-running one-man show.
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E.
George Norton
George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
- 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: Chris Cooper Target entity description: Chris Cooper is an American character actor known for his intense, nuanced performances in films such as "American Beauty," "Adaptation," and "Seabiscuit."
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A.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker known for his tough, stoic characters in films such as "The Fugitive," "No Country for Old Men," and "Men in Black."
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B.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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C.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
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D.
Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook was an American actor renowned for his Emmy- and Tony-winning career in film, television, and theater, particularly for his acclaimed portrayal of Mark Twain in his long-running one-man show.
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E.
George Norton
George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Chris Cooper Description of subject: Chris Cooper is an American character actor known for his intense, nuanced performances in films such as "American Beauty," "Adaptation," and "Seabiscuit."
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Capote (film)
subject surface form:
Adaptation
subject surface form:
Adaptation