Sean Astin
E46055
Sean Astin is an American actor best known for his role as Samwise Gamgee in the film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sean Astin canonical | 50 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T362955 — 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: Sean Astin Context triple: [The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, mainCastMember, Sean Astin]
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A.
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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B.
Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi is an American actor known for his character roles in films like "Saving Private Ryan," "Avatar," and the TV series "Friends."
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C.
Timothy Hutton
Timothy Hutton is an American actor best known for winning an Academy Award for his role in the film "Ordinary People" and for starring in the television series "Leverage."
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D.
Michael Beach
Michael Beach is an American actor known for his versatile supporting roles in film and television, including prominent appearances in dramas throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
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E.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
- 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: Sean Astin Target entity description: Sean Astin is an American actor best known for his role as Samwise Gamgee in the film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings."
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A.
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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B.
Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi is an American actor known for his character roles in films like "Saving Private Ryan," "Avatar," and the TV series "Friends."
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C.
Timothy Hutton
Timothy Hutton is an American actor best known for winning an Academy Award for his role in the film "Ordinary People" and for starring in the television series "Leverage."
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D.
Michael Beach
Michael Beach is an American actor known for his versatile supporting roles in film and television, including prominent appearances in dramas throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
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E.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sean Astin Description of subject: Sean Astin is an American actor best known for his role as Samwise Gamgee in the film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings."
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.