Kevin James
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Kevin James is an American actor and comedian best known for starring in the sitcom "The King of Queens" and films such as "Paul Blart: Mall Cop."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin James canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1809648 — 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 James Context triple: [Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, voiceCastMember, Kevin James]
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A.
Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter known for his laid-back charm and roles in popular comedies and adventure films such as "Wedding Crashers," "Zoolander," and "Midnight in Paris."
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B.
Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker is an American actor and comedian best known for his high-energy performances in the Rush Hour film series and other popular comedies.
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C.
Michael Wahlberg
Michael Wahlberg is one of the children of American actor, producer, and former rapper Mark Wahlberg.
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D.
Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd is an American actor and comedian best known for his charming, affable roles in films like Clueless, Anchorman, and as the title superhero in Marvel’s Ant-Man series.
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E.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
- 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 James Target entity description: Kevin James is an American actor and comedian best known for starring in the sitcom "The King of Queens" and films such as "Paul Blart: Mall Cop."
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A.
Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter known for his laid-back charm and roles in popular comedies and adventure films such as "Wedding Crashers," "Zoolander," and "Midnight in Paris."
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B.
Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker is an American actor and comedian best known for his high-energy performances in the Rush Hour film series and other popular comedies.
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C.
Michael Wahlberg
Michael Wahlberg is one of the children of American actor, producer, and former rapper Mark Wahlberg.
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D.
Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd is an American actor and comedian best known for his charming, affable roles in films like Clueless, Anchorman, and as the title superhero in Marvel’s Ant-Man series.
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E.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Kevin George Knipfing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-04-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
SUNY Cortland
ⓘ
surface form:
State University of New York at Cortland
|
| ethnicOrigin |
German descent
ⓘ
Greek descent ⓘ Irish descent ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film comedy
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television comedy ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
playing Paul Blart in Paul Blart: Mall Cop
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starring as Doug Heffernan in The King of Queens ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Kevin James self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Grown Ups
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Grown Ups 2 ⓘ Here Comes the Boom ⓘ Hitch ⓘ I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry ⓘ Kevin Can Wait ⓘ Paul Blart: Mall Cop ⓘ Paul Blart: Mall Cop ⓘ
surface form:
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Pixels ⓘ The Dilemma ⓘ The King of Queens ⓘ Zookeeper ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ |
| performedStandUpOn |
The Late Show
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surface form:
Late Show with David Letterman
The Tonight Show ⓘ
surface form:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
|
| placeOfBirth |
Mineola, New York
ⓘ
surface form:
Mineola, New York, United States
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| portrayedCharacter |
Doug Heffernan
ⓘ
Paul Blart ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York
ⓘ
surface form:
New York, United States
|
| sibling | Gary Valentine ⓘ |
| spouse | Steffiana de la Cruz ⓘ |
| voiceActingRole |
Barnyard
ⓘ
Hotel Transylvania ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1989–present ⓘ |
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 James Description of subject: Kevin James is an American actor and comedian best known for starring in the sitcom "The King of Queens" and films such as "Paul Blart: Mall Cop."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Grown Ups 2