Tate Donovan
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Tate Donovan is an American actor and director known for his roles in projects such as the TV series "The O.C." and the film "Argo," as well as for voicing the title character in Disney's animated movie "Hercules."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tate Donovan canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105522 — 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: Tate Donovan Context triple: [Argo, castMember, Tate Donovan]
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A.
Kai Dugan
Kai Dugan is the son of American actress Jennifer Connelly, known primarily for his connection to his famous mother.
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B.
Nathan Maloney
Nathan Maloney is a central teenage character in the British TV drama "Queer as Folk," known for exploring his sexuality and identity within Manchester’s gay scene.
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C.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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D.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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E.
Nate Cooper
Nate Cooper is a character in the film "The Devil Wears Prada," known as the boyfriend of protagonist Andy Sachs who represents her pre-fashion-world life and values.
- 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: Tate Donovan Target entity description: Tate Donovan is an American actor and director known for his roles in projects such as the TV series "The O.C." and the film "Argo," as well as for voicing the title character in Disney's animated movie "Hercules."
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A.
Kai Dugan
Kai Dugan is the son of American actress Jennifer Connelly, known primarily for his connection to his famous mother.
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B.
Nathan Maloney
Nathan Maloney is a central teenage character in the British TV drama "Queer as Folk," known for exploring his sexuality and identity within Manchester’s gay scene.
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C.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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D.
Jason Hudson
Jason Hudson was the brother of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, tragically murdered in a widely publicized 2008 family shooting in Chicago.
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E.
Nate Cooper
Nate Cooper is a character in the film "The Devil Wears Prada," known as the boyfriend of protagonist Andy Sachs who represents her pre-fashion-world life and values.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
episodes of "Bloodline"
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episodes of "Damages" ⓘ episodes of "Glee" ⓘ episodes of "MacGyver" (2016 TV series) ⓘ episodes of "Madam Secretary" ⓘ episodes of "Medium" ⓘ episodes of "Nip/Tuck" ⓘ episodes of "Shut Eye" ⓘ episodes of "Sneaky Pete" ⓘ episodes of "The Fosters" ⓘ episodes of "The Good Doctor" ⓘ episodes of "The O.C." ⓘ episodes of "Weeds" ⓘ |
| employer |
American film industry
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American television industry ⓘ |
| familyName | Donovan ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy (as actor)
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drama (as actor) ⓘ |
| givenName | Tate ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tate Donovan self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
24: Live Another Day
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Argo ⓘ Damages ⓘ Deception (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Deception (2013 TV series)
Exposed (2003 film) ⓘ Friends ⓘ Good Night, and Good Luck ⓘ Hercules ⓘ Hostages (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Hostages
Love Potion No. 9 ⓘ MacGyver ⓘ MacGyver ⓘ
surface form:
MacGyver (2016 TV series)
Manchester by the Sea ⓘ The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis Belle
Rocketman (1997 film) ⓘ The Man in the High Castle ⓘ The O.C. ⓘ Trinity (TV series) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| voiceRole |
Hercules (1997 film)
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surface form:
Hercules (title character in Disney animated film "Hercules")
|
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: Tate Donovan Description of subject: Tate Donovan is an American actor and director known for his roles in projects such as the TV series "The O.C." and the film "Argo," as well as for voicing the title character in Disney's animated movie "Hercules."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.