Ned Beatty
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Ned Beatty was an acclaimed American character actor known for his powerful supporting roles in films such as "Deliverance," "Network," and "Superman."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ned Beatty canonical | 21 |
| Ned Thomas Beatty | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1108244 — 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: Ned Beatty Context triple: [Charlie Wilson's War, starring, Ned Beatty]
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A.
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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B.
Elliott Gould
Elliott Gould is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "M*A*S*H," "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," and the "Ocean's Eleven" series.
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C.
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman is an acclaimed American actor renowned for his versatile, character-driven performances in films such as "The Graduate," "Midnight Cowboy," and "Rain Man."
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D.
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel is an American actor known for his intense, often morally complex roles in films by directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, including classics such as "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," and "Reservoir Dogs."
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E.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an acclaimed American actor and producer known for films like "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction," who has also been recognized for his humanitarian and peace-promoting work.
- 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: Ned Beatty Target entity description: Ned Beatty was an acclaimed American character actor known for his powerful supporting roles in films such as "Deliverance," "Network," and "Superman."
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A.
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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B.
Elliott Gould
Elliott Gould is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "M*A*S*H," "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," and the "Ocean's Eleven" series.
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C.
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman is an acclaimed American actor renowned for his versatile, character-driven performances in films such as "The Graduate," "Midnight Cowboy," and "Rain Man."
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D.
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel is an American actor known for his intense, often morally complex roles in films by directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, including classics such as "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," and "Reservoir Dogs."
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E.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an acclaimed American actor and producer known for films like "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction," who has also been recognized for his humanitarian and peace-promoting work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ned Beatty Description of subject: Ned Beatty was an acclaimed American character actor known for his powerful supporting roles in films such as "Deliverance," "Network," and "Superman."
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Killer Inside Me (2010 film)
this entity surface form:
Ned Thomas Beatty
subject surface form:
Charles F. Meachum