David Paymer
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David Paymer is an American character actor and director known for his prolific film and television career, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Mr. Saturday Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Paymer canonical | 27 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1198406 — 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: David Paymer Context triple: [The Five-Year Engagement, hasCastMember, David Paymer]
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A.
Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor known for his nuanced supporting and character roles in films such as "Shattered Glass," "An Education," and "Jarhead."
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B.
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti is an American actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in "Sideways," "Cinderella Man," and the series "Billions."
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C.
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina is a British-American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies such as "Spider-Man 2," "Frida," and "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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D.
James Spader
James Spader is an American actor known for his distinctive voice and intense, often eccentric performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in series like "Boston Legal" and "The Blacklist."
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E.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including prominent performances in romantic comedies and dramas since the late 1980s.
- 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: David Paymer Target entity description: David Paymer is an American character actor and director known for his prolific film and television career, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Mr. Saturday Night."
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A.
Peter Sarsgaard
Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor known for his nuanced supporting and character roles in films such as "Shattered Glass," "An Education," and "Jarhead."
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B.
Paul Giamatti
Paul Giamatti is an American actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in "Sideways," "Cinderella Man," and the series "Billions."
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C.
Alfred Molina
Alfred Molina is a British-American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies such as "Spider-Man 2," "Frida," and "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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D.
James Spader
James Spader is an American actor known for his distinctive voice and intense, often eccentric performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in series like "Boston Legal" and "The Blacklist."
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E.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including prominent performances in romantic comedies and dramas since the late 1980s.
- 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: David Paymer Description of subject: David Paymer is an American character actor and director known for his prolific film and television career, including an Academy Award–nominated role in "Mr. Saturday Night."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "The Hurricane" (1999)
subject linked to:
"Quiz Show" (1994 film)
subject linked to:
Unforgettable