Kevin Pollak
E108391
actor
comedian
film actor
film director
film producer
human
impressionist
podcaster
screenwriter
stand-up comedian
television actor
Kevin Pollak is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in films such as "The Usual Suspects," "A Few Good Men," and "Casino," as well as for his stand-up comedy and celebrity impressions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kevin Pollak canonical | 43 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T916419 — 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: Kevin Pollak Context triple: [Homestead High School, notableAlumnus, Kevin Pollak]
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A.
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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B.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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C.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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D.
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as fast-talking agent Ari Gold on the television series "Entourage" and for numerous film and stage performances.
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E.
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
- 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: Kevin Pollak Target entity description: Kevin Pollak is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in films such as "The Usual Suspects," "A Few Good Men," and "Casino," as well as for his stand-up comedy and celebrity impressions.
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A.
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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B.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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C.
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor and comedian known for his character roles in film and television, as well as for his voice work in animated projects.
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D.
Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Piven is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as fast-talking agent Ari Gold on the television series "Entourage" and for numerous film and stage performances.
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E.
Jeffrey Dean
Jeffrey Dean is a prominent American computer scientist and software engineer best known for his influential work on large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure at Google.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ impressionist ⓘ podcaster ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-10-30 ⓘ |
| familyName | Pollak ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| hasDirected | Kevin Pollak's Misery Loves Comedy ⓘ |
| hasHosted | Kevin Pollak's Chat Show ⓘ |
| knownFor |
celebrity impressions
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role in A Few Good Men ⓘ role in Casino ⓘ role in The Usual Suspects ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Pollak ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Few Good Men
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Avalon ⓘ Casino ⓘ Deterrence ⓘ End of Days ⓘ Grumpier Old Men ⓘ
linked to:
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men ⓘ Indian Summer ⓘ Red State ⓘ Ricochet ⓘ The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ⓘ The Usual Suspects ⓘ The Wedding Planner ⓘ The Whole Nine Yards ⓘ The Whole Ten Yards ⓘ Willow ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ impressionist ⓘ podcaster ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Kevin Pollak Description of subject: Kevin Pollak is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in films such as "The Usual Suspects," "A Few Good Men," and "Casino," as well as for his stand-up comedy and celebrity impressions.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mom (TV series)
subject linked to:
The Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis (director)