Shawn Ashmore
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Shawn Ashmore is a Canadian actor best known for playing Iceman in the X-Men film series and for roles in television shows such as The Following and The Boys.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shawn Ashmore canonical | 5 |
| Shawn Ashmore as George Barnum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10194114 — 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: Shawn Ashmore Context triple: [X2, stars, Shawn Ashmore]
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A.
Kyle Labine
Kyle Labine is a Canadian actor known for his work in film and television and as the brother of fellow actor Tyler Labine.
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B.
Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry is an American actor known for his roles in 1990s films such as "Empire Records," "Can't Hardly Wait," and various television series.
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C.
Paul Wesley
Paul Wesley is an American actor best known for playing Stefan Salvatore in the supernatural drama television series "The Vampire Diaries."
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D.
Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder is an American actor, model, and environmental activist best known for his role as Damon Salvatore on the television series "The Vampire Diaries."
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E.
Ben Hardy
Ben Hardy is an English actor best known for his roles in film and television, including portraying drummer Roger Taylor in the Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody."
- 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: Shawn Ashmore Target entity description: Shawn Ashmore is a Canadian actor best known for playing Iceman in the X-Men film series and for roles in television shows such as The Following and The Boys.
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A.
Kyle Labine
Kyle Labine is a Canadian actor known for his work in film and television and as the brother of fellow actor Tyler Labine.
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B.
Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry is an American actor known for his roles in 1990s films such as "Empire Records," "Can't Hardly Wait," and various television series.
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C.
Paul Wesley
Paul Wesley is an American actor best known for playing Stefan Salvatore in the supernatural drama television series "The Vampire Diaries."
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D.
Ian Somerhalder
Ian Somerhalder is an American actor, model, and environmental activist best known for his role as Damon Salvatore on the television series "The Vampire Diaries."
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E.
Ben Hardy
Ben Hardy is an English actor best known for his roles in film and television, including portraying drummer Roger Taylor in the Queen biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Bobby Drake / Iceman
NERFINISHED
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Jack Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ Jake Berenson NERFINISHED ⓘ Lamplighter NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Weston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-10-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Ashmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Shawn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTwinSibling | yes ⓘ |
| IMDbId | nm0039162 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ video games ⓘ |
| name | Shawn Ashmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying Iceman in the X-Men film series
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roles in television thrillers and superhero series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Animorphs
NERFINISHED
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Cadet Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Frozen (2010 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mother's Day (2010 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Quantum Break NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Following NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ruins NERFINISHED ⓘ X-Men NERFINISHED ⓘ X-Men: Days of Future Past NERFINISHED ⓘ X-Men: The Last Stand NERFINISHED ⓘ X2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Richmond, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Canada ⓘ |
| sibling | Aaron Ashmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Dana Wasdin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twin | Aaron Ashmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Shawn Ashmore Description of subject: Shawn Ashmore is a Canadian actor best known for playing Iceman in the X-Men film series and for roles in television shows such as The Following and The Boys.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
X2
this entity surface form:
Shawn Ashmore as George Barnum