Richard Jenkins
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Richard Jenkins is an American character actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including an Oscar-nominated role in "The Visitor" and prominent appearances in works like "Six Feet Under" and "The Shape of Water."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Jenkins canonical | 35 |
| Richard Walter Jenkins Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1747552 — 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: Richard Jenkins Context triple: [The Shape of Water, leadActor, Richard Jenkins]
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A.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is an English actor known for his distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films such as "Love Actually," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "About Time."
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B.
Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his roles in films like "Bull Durham" and "Batman" and for creating and starring in the HBO series "Arliss."
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C.
Michael Caine
Michael Caine is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and versatile performances across decades of film, including frequent roles in Christopher Nolan’s movies.
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D.
Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent is an English character actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Iris," the "Harry Potter" series, and numerous Mike Leigh films.
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E.
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer was a distinguished Canadian actor renowned for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including his iconic role in "The Sound of Music."
- 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: Richard Jenkins Target entity description: Richard Jenkins is an American character actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including an Oscar-nominated role in "The Visitor" and prominent appearances in works like "Six Feet Under" and "The Shape of Water."
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A.
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is an English actor known for his distinctive voice and acclaimed performances in films such as "Love Actually," "Pirates of the Caribbean," and "About Time."
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B.
Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his roles in films like "Bull Durham" and "Batman" and for creating and starring in the HBO series "Arliss."
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C.
Michael Caine
Michael Caine is an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and versatile performances across decades of film, including frequent roles in Christopher Nolan’s movies.
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D.
Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent is an English character actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in "Iris," the "Harry Potter" series, and numerous Mike Leigh films.
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E.
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer was a distinguished Canadian actor renowned for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including his iconic role in "The Sound of Music."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Richard Jenkins Description of subject: Richard Jenkins is an American character actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film and television, including an Oscar-nominated role in "The Visitor" and prominent appearances in works like "Six Feet Under" and "The Shape of Water."
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nightmare Alley (2021 film)
this entity surface form:
Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.
subject surface form:
The Visitor (2007 film)
subject surface form:
The Visitor (2007 film)
subject surface form:
The Visitor (2007 film)