Matthew Shear
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Matthew Shear is an American actor best known for his supporting roles in independent films and television series, including his notable appearance in Noah Baumbach’s comedy "Mistress America."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Shear canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2461497 — 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: Matthew Shear Context triple: [Mistress America, starring, Matthew Shear]
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A.
Tobias Stansbury
Tobias Stansbury was an American militia officer who led U.S. forces during the War of 1812’s Battle of Bladensburg, a key engagement preceding the British capture of Washington, D.C.
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B.
C.J. Ramone
C.J. Ramone is an American musician best known as the bassist who replaced Dee Dee Ramone in the pioneering punk rock band the Ramones.
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C.
Erik von Detten
Erik von Detten is an American actor best known for his work in popular 1990s and 2000s films and television series, including notable voice roles in animated features.
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D.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore was an English character actor best known for his comic portrayals of butlers and valets in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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E.
Zack de la Rocha
Zack de la Rocha is an American musician, poet, and political activist best known as the fiery lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band Rage Against the Machine.
- 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: Matthew Shear Target entity description: Matthew Shear is an American actor best known for his supporting roles in independent films and television series, including his notable appearance in Noah Baumbach’s comedy "Mistress America."
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A.
Tobias Stansbury
Tobias Stansbury was an American militia officer who led U.S. forces during the War of 1812’s Battle of Bladensburg, a key engagement preceding the British capture of Washington, D.C.
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B.
C.J. Ramone
C.J. Ramone is an American musician best known as the bassist who replaced Dee Dee Ramone in the pioneering punk rock band the Ramones.
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C.
Erik von Detten
Erik von Detten is an American actor best known for his work in popular 1990s and 2000s films and television series, including notable voice roles in animated features.
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D.
Eric Blore
Eric Blore was an English character actor best known for his comic portrayals of butlers and valets in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films.
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E.
Zack de la Rocha
Zack de la Rocha is an American musician, poet, and political activist best known as the fiery lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band Rage Against the Machine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Matthew Shear Description of subject: Matthew Shear is an American actor best known for his supporting roles in independent films and television series, including his notable appearance in Noah Baumbach’s comedy "Mistress America."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.