John de Lancie
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John de Lancie is an American actor best known for his recurring role as the enigmatic Q in the Star Trek franchise.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John de Lancie canonical | 8 |
| John de Lancie as Q | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7869068 — 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: John de Lancie Context triple: [Contact (1997 film), castMember, John de Lancie]
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A.
David Prowse
David Prowse was an English bodybuilder and actor best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy.
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B.
Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams is an American actor best known for his charismatic roles in films such as "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," where he portrayed Lando Calrissian.
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C.
Gabriel Duvall
Gabriel Duvall was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century.
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D.
Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn is an American actor best known for playing the Klingon character Worf in multiple Star Trek television series and films.
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E.
Julian Glover
Julian Glover is an English actor known for prominent roles in films such as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," "The Empire Strikes Back," and "For Your Eyes Only," as well as in television series like "Game of Thrones."
- 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: John de Lancie Target entity description: John de Lancie is an American actor best known for his recurring role as the enigmatic Q in the Star Trek franchise.
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A.
David Prowse
David Prowse was an English bodybuilder and actor best known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy.
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B.
Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams is an American actor best known for his charismatic roles in films such as "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi," where he portrayed Lando Calrissian.
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C.
Gabriel Duvall
Gabriel Duvall was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the early 19th century.
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D.
Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn is an American actor best known for playing the Klingon character Worf in multiple Star Trek television series and films.
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E.
Julian Glover
Julian Glover is an English actor known for prominent roles in films such as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," "The Empire Strikes Back," and "For Your Eyes Only," as well as in television series like "Game of Thrones."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Breaking Bad
NERFINISHED
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Charmed NERFINISHED ⓘ MacGyver NERFINISHED ⓘ My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ Reign Over Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Picard NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Next Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Voyager NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate SG-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hand that Rocks the Cradle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The West Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ Torchwood: Miracle Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | John Sherwood de Lancie Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Allen Shapiro
NERFINISHED
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Discord NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald Margolis NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Simmons NERFINISHED ⓘ Q NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-03-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Juilliard School
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Kent State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | de Lancie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | science fiction television ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Keegan de Lancie
NERFINISHED
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Owen de Lancie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | John de Lancie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableActivity | frequent guest at science fiction conventions ⓘ |
| notableRole | Q in Star Trek franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Breaking Bad
NERFINISHED
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Next Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Voyager NERFINISHED ⓘ Stargate SG-1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Torchwood: Miracle Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Marnie Mosiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John de Lancie Description of subject: John de Lancie is an American actor best known for his recurring role as the enigmatic Q in the Star Trek franchise.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Q Who
this entity surface form:
John de Lancie as Q
subject surface form:
Contact (1997 film)