Ross Malinger
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Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ross Malinger canonical | 13 |
| Ross Malinger as Thomas Jameson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1545392 — 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: Ross Malinger Context triple: [Sleepless in Seattle, starring, Ross Malinger]
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A.
Malachi Flynn
Malachi Flynn is an American professional basketball player and standout point guard known for his collegiate success at San Diego State University and subsequent NBA career.
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B.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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C.
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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D.
Leon Ames
Leon Ames was an American character actor best known for his prolific film and television career from the 1930s through the 1970s, often portraying dignified fathers, professionals, and authority figures.
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E.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
- 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: Ross Malinger Target entity description: Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
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A.
Malachi Flynn
Malachi Flynn is an American professional basketball player and standout point guard known for his collegiate success at San Diego State University and subsequent NBA career.
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B.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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C.
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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D.
Leon Ames
Leon Ames was an American character actor best known for his prolific film and television career from the 1930s through the 1970s, often portraying dignified fathers, professionals, and authority figures.
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E.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
- 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: Ross Malinger Description of subject: Ross Malinger is an American former child actor best known for playing Tom Hanks’s young son in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ross Malinger