Kevin Costner
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Kevin Costner is an American actor and filmmaker known for leading roles in films such as "Dances with Wolves," "Field of Dreams," and "The Bodyguard."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Costner canonical | 75 |
| Costner | 6 |
| Ben Randall – Kevin Costner | 1 |
| Crash Davis – Kevin Costner | 1 |
| Kevin Michael Costner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T155681 — 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: Kevin Costner Context triple: [The Bodyguard, starring, Kevin Costner]
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A.
Scott Eastwood
Scott Eastwood is an American actor and model known for roles in action and drama films and for being the son of filmmaker Clint Eastwood.
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B.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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C.
Clint Howard
Clint Howard is an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, often appearing in projects directed by his brother Ron Howard.
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D.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker renowned for his versatile performances in films such as "Forrest Gump," "Saving Private Ryan," and "Cast Away."
- 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: Kevin Costner Target entity description: Kevin Costner is an American actor and filmmaker known for leading roles in films such as "Dances with Wolves," "Field of Dreams," and "The Bodyguard."
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A.
Scott Eastwood
Scott Eastwood is an American actor and model known for roles in action and drama films and for being the son of filmmaker Clint Eastwood.
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B.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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C.
Clint Howard
Clint Howard is an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, often appearing in projects directed by his brother Ron Howard.
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D.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks is an acclaimed American actor and filmmaker renowned for his versatile performances in films such as "Forrest Gump," "Saving Private Ryan," and "Cast Away."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (71)
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: Kevin Costner Description of subject: Kevin Costner is an American actor and filmmaker known for leading roles in films such as "Dances with Wolves," "Field of Dreams," and "The Bodyguard."
Referenced by (84)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bull Durham
subject surface form:
Bull Durham
this entity surface form:
Crash Davis – Kevin Costner
subject surface form:
The Bodyguard
subject surface form:
The Bodyguard
subject surface form:
The Bodyguard
this entity surface form:
Kevin Michael Costner
this entity surface form:
Costner
subject surface form:
The Bodyguard
subject surface form:
The Bodyguard
subject surface form:
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
this entity surface form:
Costner
this entity surface form:
Costner