Matt Dillon
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Matt Dillon is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from 1980s teen dramas like "The Outsiders" to acclaimed roles in movies such as "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Crash."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Dillon canonical | 53 |
| Matt Dillon (actor) | 1 |
| Matthew Raymond Dillon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408258 — 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: Matt Dillon Context triple: [Deuces Wild, starring, Matt Dillon]
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A.
Dick O’Connell
Dick O’Connell was the Boston Red Sox general manager credited with orchestrating the franchise’s dramatic resurgence in the 1960s, including the famed 1967 “Impossible Dream” season.
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B.
Tim Healy
Tim Healy was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer, and writer who became the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
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C.
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta was an American actor best known for his intense, charismatic performances in films such as "Goodfellas," "Field of Dreams," and numerous crime and drama roles.
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D.
Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott is an American actor best known for his roles in the legal drama "The Practice" and the anthology series "American Horror Story."
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E.
Dominic Kinnear
Dominic Kinnear is a Scottish-American soccer coach and former player best known for leading the Houston Dynamo to multiple MLS Cup titles in the mid-2000s.
- 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: Matt Dillon Target entity description: Matt Dillon is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from 1980s teen dramas like "The Outsiders" to acclaimed roles in movies such as "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Crash."
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A.
Dick O’Connell
Dick O’Connell was the Boston Red Sox general manager credited with orchestrating the franchise’s dramatic resurgence in the 1960s, including the famed 1967 “Impossible Dream” season.
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B.
Tim Healy
Tim Healy was an Irish nationalist politician, lawyer, and writer who became the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
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C.
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta was an American actor best known for his intense, charismatic performances in films such as "Goodfellas," "Field of Dreams," and numerous crime and drama roles.
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D.
Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott is an American actor best known for his roles in the legal drama "The Practice" and the anthology series "American Horror Story."
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E.
Dominic Kinnear
Dominic Kinnear is a Scottish-American soccer coach and former player best known for leading the Houston Dynamo to multiple MLS Cup titles in the mid-2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Matt Dillon Description of subject: Matt Dillon is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from 1980s teen dramas like "The Outsiders" to acclaimed roles in movies such as "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Crash."
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Matt Dillon
subject linked to:
Cameron Drake – Matt Dillon
subject linked to:
Cameron Drake – Matt Dillon
linked to: Matt Dillon
subject linked to:
Officer John Ryan in Crash
subject linked to:
Dallas Winston in The Outsiders
subject linked to:
Doc Adams in Gunsmoke