Tom Skerritt
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Tom Skerritt is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "M*A*S*H," "Alien," and "Top Gun," as well as numerous television appearances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Skerritt canonical | 38 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1972602 — 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: Tom Skerritt Context triple: [David Drumlin, portrayedBy, Tom Skerritt]
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A.
Robert Urich
Robert Urich was an American actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Vega$," "Spenser: For Hire," and "Lonesome Dove."
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B.
William Petersen
William Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as forensic entomologist and team leader Gil Grissom on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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C.
Jeff Crowe
Jeff Crowe is a former New Zealand cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman and later became an ICC match referee.
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D.
Tom Berenger
Tom Berenger is an American actor best known for his roles in films such as "Platoon," "The Big Chill," and "Inception," often portraying tough, complex characters.
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E.
Peter Weller
Peter Weller is an American actor and director best known for his iconic role as the title character in the "RoboCop" films and for numerous appearances in science fiction and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Skerritt Target entity description: Tom Skerritt is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "M*A*S*H," "Alien," and "Top Gun," as well as numerous television appearances.
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A.
Robert Urich
Robert Urich was an American actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Vega$," "Spenser: For Hire," and "Lonesome Dove."
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B.
William Petersen
William Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as forensic entomologist and team leader Gil Grissom on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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C.
Jeff Crowe
Jeff Crowe is a former New Zealand cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman and later became an ICC match referee.
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D.
Tom Berenger
Tom Berenger is an American actor best known for his roles in films such as "Platoon," "The Big Chill," and "Inception," often portraying tough, complex characters.
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E.
Peter Weller
Peter Weller is an American actor and director best known for his iconic role as the title character in the "RoboCop" films and for numerous appearances in science fiction and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Tom Skerritt Description of subject: Tom Skerritt is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "M*A*S*H," "Alien," and "Top Gun," as well as numerous television appearances.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Contact"
subject linked to:
Captain Dallas in Alien
subject linked to:
Commander Mike "Viper" Metcalf in Top Gun
subject linked to:
Thomas