Tim Matheson
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Tim Matheson is an American actor and director best known for his roles in films like "National Lampoon's Animal House" and numerous television series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tim Matheson canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2129490 — 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: Tim Matheson Context triple: [Hart of Dixie, stars, Tim Matheson]
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A.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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B.
Michael Biehn
Michael Biehn is an American actor best known for his roles in science fiction and action films such as The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss.
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C.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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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.
Robert Urich
Robert Urich was an American actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Vega$," "Spenser: For Hire," and "Lonesome Dove."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tim Matheson Target entity description: Tim Matheson is an American actor and director best known for his roles in films like "National Lampoon's Animal House" and numerous television series.
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A.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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B.
Michael Biehn
Michael Biehn is an American actor best known for his roles in science fiction and action films such as The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss.
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C.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Tom Berenger
Tom Berenger is an American actor best known for his roles in films such as "Platoon," "The Big Chill," and "Inception," often portraying tough, complex characters.
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E.
Robert Urich
Robert Urich was an American actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Vega$," "Spenser: For Hire," and "Lonesome Dove."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Tim Matheson Description of subject: Tim Matheson is an American actor and director best known for his roles in films like "National Lampoon's Animal House" and numerous television series.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Eric "Otter" Stratton in National Lampoon's Animal House
subject linked to:
Vice President John Hoynes
subject linked to:
Vice President John Hoynes in The West Wing
subject linked to:
Dr. Brick Breeland in Hart of Dixie
subject linked to:
Timothy Lewis Matthieson
subject linked to:
How to Commit Marriage (1969 film)