Glenn
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Glenn is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often associated with figures in the arts, sports, and public life.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4641938 — 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: [Glenn Ligon, givenName, Glenn]
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A.
Glenn
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Gregg
Gregg is a given name, typically a variant spelling of the name Greg.
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E.
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."
- 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 masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often associated with figures in the arts, sports, and public life.
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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
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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D.
Gregg
Gregg is a given name, typically a variant spelling of the name Greg.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language masculine given name
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given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
arts
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public life ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| category |
English masculine given names
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masculine given names ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Glenn Beck
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Glenn Close ⓘ Glenn Danzig ⓘ Glenn Ford ⓘ Glenn Frey ⓘ Glenn Gould ⓘ Glenn Greenwald ⓘ Glenn Hoddle ⓘ Glenn McGrath ⓘ Glenn Miller ⓘ Glenn Quinn ⓘ Glenn Robinson ⓘ Glenn Tipton ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Glen ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| nameType | first name ⓘ |
| usedIn | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
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 masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often associated with figures in the arts, sports, and public life.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.