Neil Patrick Harris
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Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, comedian, and magician best known for his roles in the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Doogie Howser, M.D."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neil Patrick Harris canonical | 38 |
| Neil Patrick Harris, American actor | 1 |
| Neil Patrick Stewart | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T516407 — 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: Neil Patrick Harris Context triple: [A Million Ways to Die in the West, starring, Neil Patrick Harris]
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A.
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the television drama "The West Wing."
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B.
Kris Marshall
Kris Marshall is a British actor best known for his comedic and romantic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in Love Actually and the sitcom My Family.
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C.
Nathan Lane
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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D.
Sam Reid
Sam Reid is an Australian actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in period dramas and literary adaptations.
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E.
Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher is an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur known for his roles in television sitcoms like "That '70s Show" and "Two and a Half Men," as well as his work in film and tech investing.
- 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: Neil Patrick Harris Target entity description: Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, comedian, and magician best known for his roles in the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Doogie Howser, M.D."
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A.
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the television drama "The West Wing."
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B.
Kris Marshall
Kris Marshall is a British actor best known for his comedic and romantic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in Love Actually and the sitcom My Family.
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C.
Nathan Lane
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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D.
Sam Reid
Sam Reid is an Australian actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in period dramas and literary adaptations.
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E.
Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher is an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur known for his roles in television sitcoms like "That '70s Show" and "Two and a Half Men," as well as his work in film and tech investing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Neil Patrick Harris Description of subject: Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, comedian, and magician best known for his roles in the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Doogie Howser, M.D."
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
It's a Sin
this entity surface form:
Neil Patrick Stewart
subject surface form:
The Smurfs (2011 film)
subject surface form:
The Smurfs 2
subject surface form:
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
this entity surface form:
Neil Patrick Harris, American actor