Michael J. Fox
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Michael J. Fox is a Canadian-American actor and activist best known for his starring roles in the Back to the Future film trilogy and the TV series Family Ties and Spin City, as well as for his advocacy for Parkinson’s disease research.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael J. Fox canonical | 56 |
| Michael Andrew Fox | 2 |
| Michael J. Fox (on screen) | 1 |
| Michael J. Fox as Nick Lang | 1 |
| Sam Michael Fox | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T542470 — 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: Michael J. Fox Context triple: [Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, notableWinner, Michael J. Fox]
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A.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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B.
Blake Perlman
Blake Perlman is an American actress and singer known for roles in film and television, including appearances in projects associated with her father, actor Ron Perlman.
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C.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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D.
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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E.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
- 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: Michael J. Fox Target entity description: Michael J. Fox is a Canadian-American actor and activist best known for his starring roles in the Back to the Future film trilogy and the TV series Family Ties and Spin City, as well as for his advocacy for Parkinson’s disease research.
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A.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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B.
Blake Perlman
Blake Perlman is an American actress and singer known for roles in film and television, including appearances in projects associated with her father, actor Ron Perlman.
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C.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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D.
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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E.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
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: Michael J. Fox Description of subject: Michael J. Fox is a Canadian-American actor and activist best known for his starring roles in the Back to the Future film trilogy and the TV series Family Ties and Spin City, as well as for his advocacy for Parkinson’s disease research.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
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notableWinner
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Michael J. Fox
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this entity surface form:
Michael Andrew Fox
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
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notableRecipient
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Michael J. Fox
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this entity surface form:
Michael J. Fox (on screen)
this entity surface form:
Michael J. Fox as Nick Lang
this entity surface form:
Michael Andrew Fox
this entity surface form:
Sam Michael Fox