Tate
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Tate is a given name most commonly associated with the American actor and director Tate Donovan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tate canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7069712 — 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: Tate Context triple: [Tate Donovan, givenName, Tate]
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A.
Tate
Tate is a UK-based art institution and network of galleries that houses and promotes the national collection of British art and significant international modern and contemporary works.
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B.
Bridgeman
Bridgeman is an English surname historically associated with British nobility and aristocratic families.
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C.
Talbot
Talbot is a surname of English and Norman origin, historically associated with several notable families and individuals.
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D.
Tait
Tait is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as philosophy, science, and the arts.
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E.
Spottiswoode
Spottiswoode is a surname most notably associated with British-Canadian film director Roger Spottiswoode.
- 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: Tate Target entity description: Tate is a given name most commonly associated with the American actor and director Tate Donovan.
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A.
Tate
Tate is a UK-based art institution and network of galleries that houses and promotes the national collection of British art and significant international modern and contemporary works.
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B.
Bridgeman
Bridgeman is an English surname historically associated with British nobility and aristocratic families.
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C.
Talbot
Talbot is a surname of English and Norman origin, historically associated with several notable families and individuals.
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D.
Tait
Tait is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as philosophy, science, and the arts.
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E.
Spottiswoode
Spottiswoode is a surname most notably associated with British-Canadian film director Roger Spottiswoode.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
American film director ⓘ American television director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-09-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Donovan ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Tate ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0004883 ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Hercules (voice)
ⓘ
Jimmy Cooper ⓘ Joshua Burgin ⓘ Tom Shayes ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Argo
ⓘ
Damages ⓘ Friends ⓘ Hercules ⓘ The O.C. ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tenafly, New Jersey ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Corinne Kingsbury ⓘ |
| voiceActorIn | Hercules ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Tate Description of subject: Tate is a given name most commonly associated with the American actor and director Tate Donovan.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.