Holt McCallany
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Holt McCallany is an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent turn as FBI agent Bill Tench in the series "Mindhunter."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Holt McCallany canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1770935 — 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: Holt McCallany Context triple: [Nightmare Alley (2021 film), castMember, Holt McCallany]
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A.
James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale is an American actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including performances in projects like "The Pacific," "Iron Man 3," and "World War Z."
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B.
Jared Harris
Jared Harris is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including acclaimed performances in series like "Mad Men," "Chernobyl," and "The Crown."
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C.
Corey Stoll
Corey Stoll is an American actor known for his prominent roles in film and television, including his acclaimed performance as Congressman Peter Russo in the political drama series "House of Cards."
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D.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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E.
Pablo Schreiber
Pablo Schreiber is a Canadian-American actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including standout performances in series like "Orange Is the New Black" and "American Gods."
- 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: Holt McCallany Target entity description: Holt McCallany is an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent turn as FBI agent Bill Tench in the series "Mindhunter."
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A.
James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale is an American actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including performances in projects like "The Pacific," "Iron Man 3," and "World War Z."
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B.
Jared Harris
Jared Harris is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including acclaimed performances in series like "Mad Men," "Chernobyl," and "The Crown."
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C.
Corey Stoll
Corey Stoll is an American actor known for his prominent roles in film and television, including his acclaimed performance as Congressman Peter Russo in the political drama series "House of Cards."
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D.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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E.
Pablo Schreiber
Pablo Schreiber is a Canadian-American actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including standout performances in series like "Orange Is the New Black" and "American Gods."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Fight Club
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Lights Out ⓘ Mindhunter ⓘ Shot Caller ⓘ Three Kings ⓘ Wrath of Man ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Netflix ⓘ |
| bestKnownFor | role as Bill Tench in Mindhunter ⓘ |
| characterPlayed |
Bill Tench
ⓘ
Patrick "Lights" Leary ⓘ The Mechanic ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-09-03 ⓘ |
| familyName | McCallany ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
crime drama
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thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Holt ⓘ |
| industry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying law enforcement characters
ⓘ
tough authoritative roles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
cable television
ⓘ
feature films ⓘ streaming television ⓘ |
| name | Holt McCallany ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Bill Tench ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lights Out
ⓘ
Mindhunter ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| portrays |
FBI agent characters
ⓘ
boxers ⓘ military characters ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–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: Holt McCallany Description of subject: Holt McCallany is an American actor best known for his tough, authoritative roles in film and television, including a prominent turn as FBI agent Bill Tench in the series "Mindhunter."
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.