Seymour Cassel
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Seymour Cassel was an American character actor known for his longtime collaboration with director John Cassavetes and his roles in numerous independent and mainstream films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seymour Cassel canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2937531 — 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: Seymour Cassel Context triple: [The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, starring, Seymour Cassel]
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A.
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
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B.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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C.
Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto was an American actor best known for his powerful performances in films like Alien and Midnight Run and the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.
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D.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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E.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
- 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: Seymour Cassel Target entity description: Seymour Cassel was an American character actor known for his longtime collaboration with director John Cassavetes and his roles in numerous independent and mainstream films.
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A.
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
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B.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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C.
Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto was an American actor best known for his powerful performances in films like Alien and Midnight Run and the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.
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D.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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E.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (84)
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: Seymour Cassel Description of subject: Seymour Cassel was an American character actor known for his longtime collaboration with director John Cassavetes and his roles in numerous independent and mainstream films.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.