Matthew Fox
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Matthew Fox is an American actor best known for his leading role as Jack Shephard on the television series "Lost" and for appearances in films such as "Smokin' Aces."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matthew Fox canonical | 20 |
| Matthew Fox (actor) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T523966 — 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: Matthew Fox Context triple: [Smokin' Aces, starring, Matthew Fox]
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A.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Lee Pace
Lee Pace is an American actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in "Pushing Daisies," "The Hobbit" trilogy, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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C.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including prominent performances in romantic comedies and dramas since the late 1980s.
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D.
Martin Henderson
Martin Henderson is a New Zealand actor known for his roles in films like "The Ring" and "Everest" and TV series such as "Grey's Anatomy" and "Virgin River."
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E.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
- 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: Matthew Fox Target entity description: Matthew Fox is an American actor best known for his leading role as Jack Shephard on the television series "Lost" and for appearances in films such as "Smokin' Aces."
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A.
Peter Macon
Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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B.
Lee Pace
Lee Pace is an American actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including roles in "Pushing Daisies," "The Hobbit" trilogy, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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C.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including prominent performances in romantic comedies and dramas since the late 1980s.
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D.
Martin Henderson
Martin Henderson is a New Zealand actor known for his roles in films like "The Ring" and "Everest" and TV series such as "Grey's Anatomy" and "Virgin River."
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E.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Charlie Salinger
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Jack Shephard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Fox ⓘ |
| genre |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthew ⓘ |
| knownFor | leading role as Jack Shephard on Lost ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
feature film
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| name | Matthew Fox ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alex Cross
ⓘ
Lost ⓘ Lost (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Lost
Party of Five ⓘ Party of Five (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Party of Five
Smokin' Aces ⓘ Smokin' Aces (2006 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Smokin' Aces
Vantage Point ⓘ We Are Marshall ⓘ World War Z ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Charlie Salinger
ⓘ
Jack Shephard ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Matthew Fox Description of subject: Matthew Fox is an American actor best known for his leading role as Jack Shephard on the television series "Lost" and for appearances in films such as "Smokin' Aces."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.