Max von Sydow
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Max von Sydow was a renowned Swedish-French actor known for his collaborations with Ingmar Bergman and his roles in films such as "The Seventh Seal," "The Exorcist," and "Pelle the Conqueror."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max von Sydow canonical | 28 |
| Carl Adolf von Sydow | 1 |
| von Sydow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2041817 — 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: Max von Sydow Context triple: [Embassy, castMember, Max von Sydow]
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A.
Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz was a renowned Swiss actor acclaimed for his intense and nuanced performances in European cinema, particularly in films like "Wings of Desire" and "Downfall."
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B.
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken is an American actor known for his distinctive voice, eccentric screen presence, and memorable roles in films such as "The Deer Hunter," "Pulp Fiction," and "Catch Me If You Can."
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C.
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee was an English actor renowned for his deep voice and imposing presence, best known for iconic roles such as Count Dracula in Hammer Horror films and Saruman in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
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D.
Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner was a Russian-born American actor best known for his charismatic, bald-headed performances in classic films and stage productions such as "The King and I."
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E.
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
- 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: Max von Sydow Target entity description: Max von Sydow was a renowned Swedish-French actor known for his collaborations with Ingmar Bergman and his roles in films such as "The Seventh Seal," "The Exorcist," and "Pelle the Conqueror."
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A.
Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz was a renowned Swiss actor acclaimed for his intense and nuanced performances in European cinema, particularly in films like "Wings of Desire" and "Downfall."
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B.
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken is an American actor known for his distinctive voice, eccentric screen presence, and memorable roles in films such as "The Deer Hunter," "Pulp Fiction," and "Catch Me If You Can."
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C.
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee was an English actor renowned for his deep voice and imposing presence, best known for iconic roles such as Count Dracula in Hammer Horror films and Saruman in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
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D.
Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner was a Russian-born American actor best known for his charismatic, bald-headed performances in classic films and stage productions such as "The King and I."
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E.
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (87)
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: Max von Sydow Description of subject: Max von Sydow was a renowned Swedish-French actor known for his collaborations with Ingmar Bergman and his roles in films such as "The Seventh Seal," "The Exorcist," and "Pelle the Conqueror."
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Carl Adolf von Sydow
this entity surface form:
von Sydow