Scott Glenn
E87547
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Glenn canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577885 — 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: Scott Glenn Context triple: [Backdraft, stars, Scott Glenn]
-
A.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
-
B.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
-
C.
George Norton
George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
-
D.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
-
E.
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken is an American actor known for his distinctive voice, eccentric screen presence, and memorable roles in films such as "The Deer Hunter," "Pulp Fiction," and "Catch Me If You Can."
- 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: Scott Glenn Target entity description: Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
-
A.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
-
B.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
-
C.
George Norton
George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
-
D.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
-
E.
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken is an American actor known for his distinctive voice, eccentric screen presence, and memorable roles in films such as "The Deer Hunter," "Pulp Fiction," and "Catch Me If You Can."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Scott Glenn Description of subject: Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Secretariat (2010 film)
subject surface form:
The Bourne Ultimatum