Glenn
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Glenn is a surname most prominently associated with American actor Scott Glenn, known for his roles in films such as "The Right Stuff" and "The Silence of the Lambs."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glenn canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4084105 — 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: Glenn Context triple: [Scott Glenn, familyName, Glenn]
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A.
Glenn
Glenn is the first name of Glenn Quagmire, a hyperactive, sex-obsessed neighbor character from the animated TV series "Family Guy."
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B.
Glenn
Glenn "Bo" Schembechler was a legendary American college football coach best known for his long and successful tenure leading the University of Michigan Wolverines.
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C.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
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D.
Gordon
Gordon is the middle name of the famed Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose full name is George Gordon Byron.
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E.
Gordon
Gordon is a small village in the Scottish Borders region of southeastern Scotland, historically part of Berwickshire.
- 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: Glenn Target entity description: Glenn is a surname most prominently associated with American actor Scott Glenn, known for his roles in films such as "The Right Stuff" and "The Silence of the Lambs."
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A.
Glenn
Glenn is the first name of Glenn Quagmire, a hyperactive, sex-obsessed neighbor character from the animated TV series "Family Guy."
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B.
Glenn
Glenn "Bo" Schembechler was a legendary American college football coach best known for his long and successful tenure leading the University of Michigan Wolverines.
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C.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
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D.
Gordon
Gordon is the middle name of the famed Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose full name is George Gordon Byron.
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E.
Gordon
Gordon is a small village in the Scottish Borders region of southeastern Scotland, historically part of Berwickshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
surnames derived from geographic features ⓘ surnames of Irish origin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Gaelic word "gleann" ⓘ |
| familyName |
Close
ⓘ
Glenn self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Gary Glenn
ⓘ
Glenn Close ⓘ John Glenn ⓘ Scott Glenn ⓘ Tara Glenn ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Glenn
ⓘ
surface form:
Glennn
Glyn ⓘ
surface form:
Glynn
|
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| meaning | valley ⓘ |
| nameType | topographic surname ⓘ |
| notableFor | first American to orbit Earth ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Backdraft
ⓘ
Marvel's Daredevil ⓘ
surface form:
Daredevil (TV series)
Silverado ⓘ The Hunt for Red October ⓘ The Right Stuff ⓘ The Silence of the Lambs ⓘ Training Day ⓘ Urban Cowboy ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
astronaut ⓘ politician ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Glenn Description of subject: Glenn is a surname most prominently associated with American actor Scott Glenn, known for his roles in films such as "The Right Stuff" and "The Silence of the Lambs."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Silence
subject surface form:
Scott Glenn