Cory Michael Smith
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Cory Michael Smith is an American actor best known for portraying Edward Nygma/The Riddler on the television series "Gotham."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cory Michael Smith canonical | 7 |
| Cory Michael Smith as Dean | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6627977 — 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: Cory Michael Smith Context triple: [Gotham, leadActor, Cory Michael Smith]
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A.
Caleb McLaughlin
Caleb McLaughlin is an American actor best known for playing Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix science-fiction horror series "Stranger Things."
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B.
Alan Ritchson
Alan Ritchson is an American actor, model, and filmmaker best known for roles in projects like "Reacher," "Blue Mountain State," and the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" films.
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C.
Joel McKinnon Miller
Joel McKinnon Miller is an American character actor best known for playing the affable Detective Norm Scully on the television comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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D.
Benjamin Walker
Benjamin Walker is an American actor and stand-up comedian known for roles in films like "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and "In the Heart of the Sea," as well as on stage in productions such as "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson."
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E.
Hartley Sawyer
Hartley Sawyer is an American actor best known for playing Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man, on the television series "The Flash."
- 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: Cory Michael Smith Target entity description: Cory Michael Smith is an American actor best known for portraying Edward Nygma/The Riddler on the television series "Gotham."
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A.
Caleb McLaughlin
Caleb McLaughlin is an American actor best known for playing Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix science-fiction horror series "Stranger Things."
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B.
Alan Ritchson
Alan Ritchson is an American actor, model, and filmmaker best known for roles in projects like "Reacher," "Blue Mountain State," and the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" films.
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C.
Joel McKinnon Miller
Joel McKinnon Miller is an American character actor best known for playing the affable Detective Norm Scully on the television comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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D.
Benjamin Walker
Benjamin Walker is an American actor and stand-up comedian known for roles in films like "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and "In the Heart of the Sea," as well as on stage in productions such as "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson."
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E.
Hartley Sawyer
Hartley Sawyer is an American actor best known for playing Ralph Dibny, the Elongated Man, on the television series "The Flash."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
1985
ⓘ
Carol ⓘ Cock (stage play) ⓘ Gotham ⓘ The Snow Geese ⓘ Utopia (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
The Coast of Utopia (Broadway production)
Wonderstruck ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Edward Nygma
ⓘ
linked to:
The Riddler
The Riddler ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1986-11-14 ⓘ |
| education | Otterbein University ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
art history
ⓘ
theater ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Cory ⓘ |
| hasInstagramProfile | true ⓘ |
| hasTwitterProfile | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying Edward Nygma on Gotham
ⓘ
portraying The Riddler on Gotham ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Cory Michael Smith ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Gotham ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Columbus, Ohio, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Columbus, Ohio
|
| residence | New York City (inferred, may vary over time) ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 2010s ⓘ |
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: Cory Michael Smith Description of subject: Cory Michael Smith is an American actor best known for portraying Edward Nygma/The Riddler on the television series "Gotham."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cory Michael Smith