Jan Triska
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Jan Triska was a Czech-American actor known for his intense character roles in film, television, and theater, including notable performances in both European cinema and Hollywood productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jan Triska canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4663301 — 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: Jan Triska Context triple: [The Omega Code, starring, Jan Triska]
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A.
Jan Kotěra
Jan Kotěra was a pioneering Czech architect and key figure of early modern architecture in Central Europe, known for transitioning from Art Nouveau to functionalist and modernist styles.
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B.
Martin Rázus
Martin Rázus was a prominent Slovak Lutheran pastor, writer, and politician who became a leading figure in the Slovak national and autonomist movement in the early 20th century.
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C.
Anton Bernolák
Anton Bernolák was an 18th-century Slovak linguist and Catholic priest best known for codifying the first standard form of the Slovak language and playing a key role in the Slovak national revival.
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D.
Jan Syrový
Jan Syrový was a Czechoslovak army general and politician who briefly served as prime minister during the critical period following the Munich Agreement in 1938.
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E.
Petr Zenkl
Petr Zenkl was a prominent Czech politician and anti-communist leader who served as mayor of Prague and later as a leading figure of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile.
- 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: Jan Triska Target entity description: Jan Triska was a Czech-American actor known for his intense character roles in film, television, and theater, including notable performances in both European cinema and Hollywood productions.
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A.
Jan Kotěra
Jan Kotěra was a pioneering Czech architect and key figure of early modern architecture in Central Europe, known for transitioning from Art Nouveau to functionalist and modernist styles.
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B.
Martin Rázus
Martin Rázus was a prominent Slovak Lutheran pastor, writer, and politician who became a leading figure in the Slovak national and autonomist movement in the early 20th century.
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C.
Anton Bernolák
Anton Bernolák was an 18th-century Slovak linguist and Catholic priest best known for codifying the first standard form of the Slovak language and playing a key role in the Slovak national revival.
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D.
Jan Syrový
Jan Syrový was a Czechoslovak army general and politician who briefly served as prime minister during the critical period following the Munich Agreement in 1938.
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E.
Petr Zenkl
Petr Zenkl was a prominent Czech politician and anti-communist leader who served as mayor of Prague and later as a leading figure of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech-American
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actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
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United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Czech ⓘ |
| familyName | Triska ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Jan ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Czech
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English ⓘ |
| name | Jan Triska ⓘ |
| notableFor | intense character roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anděl Exit
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Apt Pupil ⓘ Blade II ⓘ European cinema roles ⓘ Hollywood productions ⓘ Hostel ⓘ Ragtime ⓘ Ronin ⓘ The Elementary School ⓘ The People vs. Larry Flynt ⓘ Želary ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Czech Republic
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
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: Jan Triska Description of subject: Jan Triska was a Czech-American actor known for his intense character roles in film, television, and theater, including notable performances in both European cinema and Hollywood productions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.