Matthew Lillard
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Matthew Lillard is an American actor and director best known for his energetic, often comedic performances in films such as "Scream," "Scooby-Doo," and "Hackers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Lillard canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2804023 — 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 Lillard Context triple: [Wicker Park, starring, Matthew Lillard]
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A.
Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn is an American actor known for his comedic and character roles in films such as "That Thing You Do!", "Saving Silverman," and "Sahara," as well as in television and independent cinema.
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B.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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C.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
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D.
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore was an American character actor known for his intense supporting roles in gritty war and crime films such as "Saving Private Ryan," "Heat," and "Black Hawk Down."
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E.
Verne Troyer
Verne Troyer was an American actor and stunt performer best known for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series.
- 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 Lillard Target entity description: Matthew Lillard is an American actor and director best known for his energetic, often comedic performances in films such as "Scream," "Scooby-Doo," and "Hackers."
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A.
Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn is an American actor known for his comedic and character roles in films such as "That Thing You Do!", "Saving Silverman," and "Sahara," as well as in television and independent cinema.
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B.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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C.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
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D.
Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore was an American character actor known for his intense supporting roles in gritty war and crime films such as "Saving Private Ryan," "Heat," and "Black Hawk Down."
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E.
Verne Troyer
Verne Troyer was an American actor and stunt performer best known for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Lillard Description of subject: Matthew Lillard is an American actor and director best known for his energetic, often comedic performances in films such as "Scream," "Scooby-Doo," and "Hackers."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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