Wallace Shawn
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Wallace Shawn is an American character actor, playwright, and essayist known for his distinctive voice and roles in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "My Dinner with Andre."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wallace Shawn canonical | 65 |
| Wallace Shawn (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2124335 — 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: Wallace Shawn Context triple: [Toy Story, voiceActor, Wallace Shawn]
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A.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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B.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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C.
Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for co-creating and starring in the 1990s sitcom "Mad About You" and for roles in films such as "Aliens" and "Diner."
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D.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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E.
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Dr. Niles Crane on the television sitcom "Frasier."
- 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: Wallace Shawn Target entity description: Wallace Shawn is an American character actor, playwright, and essayist known for his distinctive voice and roles in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "My Dinner with Andre."
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A.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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B.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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C.
Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for co-creating and starring in the 1990s sitcom "Mad About You" and for roles in films such as "Aliens" and "Diner."
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D.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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E.
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Dr. Niles Crane on the television sitcom "Frasier."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Wallace Shawn Description of subject: Wallace Shawn is an American character actor, playwright, and essayist known for his distinctive voice and roles in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "My Dinner with Andre."
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Toy Story 4-related Forky Asks a Question
subject linked to:
The Addams Family 2 (2021 film)
subject linked to:
The Double
linked to: Wallace Shawn
subject linked to:
Evening at the Talk House