Nathan Lane
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Nathan Lane is an American actor and comedian renowned for his work on stage and screen, including acclaimed performances in Broadway musicals like "The Producers" and films such as "The Birdcage."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nathan Lane canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T449714 — 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: Nathan Lane Context triple: [Lane, hasNotableBearer, Nathan Lane]
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A.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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B.
Josh Gad
Josh Gad is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Frozen" (as the voice of Olaf) and "Beauty and the Beast," as well as on Broadway in "The Book of Mormon."
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C.
Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his roles in films like "Bull Durham" and "Batman" and for creating and starring in the HBO series "Arliss."
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D.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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E.
Michael O'Laughlen
Michael O'Laughlen was an American Confederate sympathizer and associate of John Wilkes Booth who was implicated as a co-conspirator in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
- 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: Nathan Lane Target entity description: Nathan Lane is an American actor and comedian renowned for his work on stage and screen, including acclaimed performances in Broadway musicals like "The Producers" and films such as "The Birdcage."
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A.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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B.
Josh Gad
Josh Gad is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Frozen" (as the voice of Olaf) and "Beauty and the Beast," as well as on Broadway in "The Book of Mormon."
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C.
Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his roles in films like "Bull Durham" and "Batman" and for creating and starring in the HBO series "Arliss."
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D.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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E.
Michael O'Laughlen
Michael O'Laughlen was an American Confederate sympathizer and associate of John Wilkes Booth who was implicated as a co-conspirator in the plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award
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Outer Critics Circle Award ⓘ Primetime Emmy Awards ⓘ
surface form:
Primetime Emmy Award
Screen Actors Guild Award ⓘ Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical ⓘ |
| birthName | Joseph Lane ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-02-03 ⓘ |
| familyName | Lane ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Nathan Lane self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1996 Broadway revival)
ⓘ
Angels in America ⓘ
surface form:
Angels in America (Broadway revival)
Guys and Dolls ⓘ
surface form:
Guys and Dolls (1992 Broadway revival)
Modern Family ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Family (TV series)
MouseHunt (1997 film) ⓘ Only Murders in the Building ⓘ
surface form:
Only Murders in the Building (TV series)
The Addams Family (Broadway musical) ⓘ The Birdcage ⓘ
surface form:
The Birdcage (1996 film)
The Front Page (2016 Broadway revival) ⓘ
surface form:
The Front Page (Broadway revival)
The Good Wife ⓘ
surface form:
The Good Wife (TV series)
The Lion King ⓘ
surface form:
The Lion King (1994 film)
The Producers (2005 film) ⓘ The Producers (2001 Broadway production) ⓘ
surface form:
The Producers (Broadway musical)
The Producers (2001 Broadway production) ⓘ
surface form:
The Producers: Original Broadway Cast Recording
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| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Jersey City
ⓘ
surface form:
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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| portrayedCharacter |
Albert Goldman in The Birdcage
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Gomez Addams ⓘ
surface form:
Gomez Addams in The Addams Family (Broadway musical)
Max Bialystock in The Producers ⓘ Guys and Dolls ⓘ
surface form:
Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls (1992 Broadway revival)
Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1996 Broadway revival) ⓘ Roy Cohn in Angels in America (Broadway revival) ⓘ Timon ⓘ
surface form:
Timon in The Lion King
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| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Devlin Elliott ⓘ |
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: Nathan Lane Description of subject: Nathan Lane is an American actor and comedian renowned for his work on stage and screen, including acclaimed performances in Broadway musicals like "The Producers" and films such as "The Birdcage."
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nicholas Nickleby (2002 film)
subject surface form:
Hakuna Matata
subject surface form:
Albert Goldman (The Birdcage)