Justin Berfield
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Justin Berfield is an American actor and producer best known for playing Reese, the troublemaking older brother, on the television sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Justin Berfield canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10945196 — 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: Justin Berfield Context triple: [Kevin Swanson, portrayedBy, Justin Berfield]
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A.
Michael Bivins
Michael Bivins is an American singer, rapper, and music executive best known as a founding member of the R&B groups New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe and as a key figure in developing 1990s hip-hop and R&B acts.
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B.
J. J. Bennen
J. J. Bennen was a pioneering 19th-century Swiss mountain guide and alpinist known for making some of the earliest ascents in the Alps.
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C.
Zach Nunn
Zach Nunn is a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa who serves as part of the state’s congressional delegation.
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D.
Darren Dreifort
Darren Dreifort is a former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers after starring as a two-way player at the University of Oklahoma.
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E.
Justin Henderson
Justin Henderson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the track "Wildest Dreams."
- 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: Justin Berfield Target entity description: Justin Berfield is an American actor and producer best known for playing Reese, the troublemaking older brother, on the television sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle."
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A.
Michael Bivins
Michael Bivins is an American singer, rapper, and music executive best known as a founding member of the R&B groups New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe and as a key figure in developing 1990s hip-hop and R&B acts.
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B.
J. J. Bennen
J. J. Bennen was a pioneering 19th-century Swiss mountain guide and alpinist known for making some of the earliest ascents in the Alps.
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C.
Zach Nunn
Zach Nunn is a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa who serves as part of the state’s congressional delegation.
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D.
Darren Dreifort
Darren Dreifort is a former Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers after starring as a two-way player at the University of Oklahoma.
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E.
Justin Henderson
Justin Henderson is a songwriter best known for co-writing the track "Wildest Dreams."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Malcolm in the Middle
NERFINISHED
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Max Keeble's Big Move NERFINISHED ⓘ Mom, Can I Keep Her? NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Life NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kid with X-Ray Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mommies NERFINISHED ⓘ Unhappily Ever After NERFINISHED ⓘ Who's the Boss? (commercials and minor roles) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Reese Wilkerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Bryan Cranston
NERFINISHED
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Christopher Masterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Erik Per Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Frankie Muniz NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Kaczmarek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1986-02-25 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Berfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Justin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | chief creative officer of Virgin Produced ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Lorne Berfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkedAs | commercial actor ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Reese on Malcolm in the Middle ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Justin Berfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | child acting career ⓘ |
| notableWork | Malcolm in the Middle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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producer ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Agoura Hills, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| worksFor | Virgin Produced NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Justin Berfield Description of subject: Justin Berfield is an American actor and producer best known for playing Reese, the troublemaking older brother, on the television sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.