Chris Sarandon
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Chris Sarandon is an American actor known for his acclaimed supporting role in "Dog Day Afternoon" and for memorable performances in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "Fright Night."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Chris Sarandon canonical | 29 |
| Christopher Sarandon Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2245453 — 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: Chris Sarandon Context triple: [Dog Day Afternoon, starring, Chris Sarandon]
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A.
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."
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B.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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C.
David Hennings
David Hennings is a film cinematographer known for his work on major studio comedies and other feature films, including "Horrible Bosses."
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D.
Scott Glenn
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."
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E.
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.
- 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: Chris Sarandon Target entity description: Chris Sarandon is an American actor known for his acclaimed supporting role in "Dog Day Afternoon" and for memorable performances in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "Fright Night."
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A.
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."
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B.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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C.
David Hennings
David Hennings is a film cinematographer known for his work on major studio comedies and other feature films, including "Horrible Bosses."
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D.
Scott Glenn
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."
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E.
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.
- 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: Chris Sarandon Description of subject: Chris Sarandon is an American actor known for his acclaimed supporting role in "Dog Day Afternoon" and for memorable performances in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "Fright Night."
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Chris Sarandon
subject linked to:
Vistar Films
subject linked to:
Jerry Dandrige (1985 Fright Night character)
subject linked to:
Leon Shermer in Dog Day Afternoon
subject linked to:
Detective Mike Norris in Child's Play