Steve Zahn
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Steve Zahn is an American actor known for his comedic and character roles in films such as "That Thing You Do!", "Saving Silverman," and "Sahara," as well as in television and independent cinema.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Zahn canonical | 48 |
| Wayne Lefessier – Steve Zahn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1108300 — 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 Zahn Context triple: [Sunshine Cleaning, castMember, Steve Zahn]
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Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
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Bill Durnan
Bill Durnan was a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s, renowned for his ambidextrous catching ability and dominance in the early NHL.
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C.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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D.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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E.
Seth Gabel
Seth Gabel is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Fringe," "Salem," and "Nip/Tuck."
- 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 Zahn Target entity description: Steve Zahn is an American actor known for his comedic and character roles in films such as "That Thing You Do!", "Saving Silverman," and "Sahara," as well as in television and independent cinema.
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A.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
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B.
Bill Durnan
Bill Durnan was a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s, renowned for his ambidextrous catching ability and dominance in the early NHL.
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C.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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D.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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E.
Seth Gabel
Seth Gabel is an American actor known for his roles in television series such as "Fringe," "Salem," and "Nip/Tuck."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Zahn Description of subject: Steve Zahn is an American actor known for his comedic and character roles in films such as "That Thing You Do!", "Saving Silverman," and "Sahara," as well as in television and independent cinema.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Chicken Little
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Speak
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008 film)
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Marshall, Minnesota, United States
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Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove
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