Crispin Glover
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Crispin Glover is an American actor, filmmaker, and author best known for his eccentric screen presence and memorable roles in films such as "Back to the Future" and "River's Edge."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crispin Glover canonical | 30 |
| Crispin Hellion Glover | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1636898 — 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: Crispin Glover Context triple: [Back to the Future, starring, Crispin Glover]
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A.
Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear is an acclaimed English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in the James Bond franchise and the series "Penny Dreadful."
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B.
Dick O’Connell
Dick O’Connell was the Boston Red Sox general manager credited with orchestrating the franchise’s dramatic resurgence in the 1960s, including the famed 1967 “Impossible Dream” season.
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C.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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D.
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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E.
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."
- 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: Crispin Glover Target entity description: Crispin Glover is an American actor, filmmaker, and author best known for his eccentric screen presence and memorable roles in films such as "Back to the Future" and "River's Edge."
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A.
Rory Kinnear
Rory Kinnear is an acclaimed English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in the James Bond franchise and the series "Penny Dreadful."
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B.
Dick O’Connell
Dick O’Connell was the Boston Red Sox general manager credited with orchestrating the franchise’s dramatic resurgence in the 1960s, including the famed 1967 “Impossible Dream” season.
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C.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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D.
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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E.
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."
- 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: Crispin Glover Description of subject: Crispin Glover is an American actor, filmmaker, and author best known for his eccentric screen presence and memorable roles in films such as "Back to the Future" and "River's Edge."
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Crispin Glover
subject linked to:
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subject linked to:
Layne in River's Edge
subject linked to:
Layne in River's Edge
linked to: Crispin Glover
subject linked to:
Willard Stiles in Willard