Michael Weiss
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Michael Weiss is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as journalism, sports, and the arts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Weiss canonical | 3 |
| Michael D. Weiss | 2 |
| Michael T. Weiss | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3250467 — 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: Michael Weiss Context triple: [Weiss, hasNotableBearer, Michael Weiss]
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A.
Andrew Weiss
Andrew Weiss is a notable individual whose specific prominence or field of recognition is not clearly identifiable from the given information alone.
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B.
John Weiss
John Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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C.
David Weisberg
David Weisberg is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the action film "The Rock" and other Hollywood thrillers.
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D.
David Weiss
David Weiss is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as law, music, and literature.
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E.
Steve Weissman
Steve Weissman is an American political activist and writer best known for his leadership role in the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
- 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: Michael Weiss Target entity description: Michael Weiss is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as journalism, sports, and the arts.
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A.
Andrew Weiss
Andrew Weiss is a notable individual whose specific prominence or field of recognition is not clearly identifiable from the given information alone.
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B.
John Weiss
John Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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C.
David Weisberg
David Weisberg is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the action film "The Rock" and other Hollywood thrillers.
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D.
David Weiss
David Weiss is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as law, music, and literature.
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E.
Steve Weissman
Steve Weissman is an American political activist and writer best known for his leadership role in the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Germany
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United States of America ⓘ |
| competedIn |
Pan American Games
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Winter Olympics ⓘ
surface form:
Winter Olympic Games
World Figure Skating Championships ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1962-02-02
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1976-08-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Dartmouth College ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Middle East politics
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Russian politics ⓘ foreign policy ⓘ homotopy theory ⓘ legal advocacy ⓘ topology ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
medalist at international swimming competitions
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three-time U.S. national champion in men’s figure skating ⓘ two-time World bronze medalist in figure skating ⓘ |
| notableFor | advocacy for safer medical equipment for healthcare workers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
analysis of the Syrian civil war
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lead role in television series "The Pretender" ⓘ reporting on Russian military and intelligence activities ⓘ research on manifold calculus and embedding theory ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
author ⓘ coach ⓘ figure skater ⓘ journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ mathematician ⓘ political commentator ⓘ swimmer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Chicago
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
freestyle swimming
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individual medley ⓘ |
| sport |
figure skating
ⓘ
swimming ⓘ |
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: Michael Weiss Description of subject: Michael Weiss is a common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as journalism, sports, and the arts.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Michael D. Weiss
subject surface form:
Bones (2001 film)
this entity surface form:
Michael T. Weiss
subject surface form:
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 film)
this entity surface form:
Michael D. Weiss