Hilary Swank
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Hilary Swank is an American actress and two-time Academy Award winner known for her intense, transformative performances in films such as "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hilary Swank canonical | 16 |
| Hilary Ann Swank | 1 |
| Swank | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2350526 — 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: Hilary Swank Context triple: [Insomnia (2002 film), leadActor, Hilary Swank]
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A.
Amy Adams
Amy Adams is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatility in both comedic and dramatic roles, including performances in films such as "Enchanted," "American Hustle," and "Arrival."
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B.
Annie Costner
Annie Costner is an American film producer and occasional actress, best known as the daughter of actor and filmmaker Kevin Costner.
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C.
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock is an Academy Award–winning American actress and producer known for her versatile performances in films ranging from romantic comedies like "While You Were Sleeping" to intense dramas such as "The Blind Side."
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D.
Halle Berry
Halle Berry is an American actress and former fashion model acclaimed for her groundbreaking, award-winning performances in film and television.
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E.
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is an Academy Award–winning American actress renowned for her leading roles in films such as "Pretty Woman," "Erin Brockovich," and numerous other box-office hits.
- 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: Hilary Swank Target entity description: Hilary Swank is an American actress and two-time Academy Award winner known for her intense, transformative performances in films such as "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby."
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A.
Amy Adams
Amy Adams is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatility in both comedic and dramatic roles, including performances in films such as "Enchanted," "American Hustle," and "Arrival."
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B.
Annie Costner
Annie Costner is an American film producer and occasional actress, best known as the daughter of actor and filmmaker Kevin Costner.
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C.
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock is an Academy Award–winning American actress and producer known for her versatile performances in films ranging from romantic comedies like "While You Were Sleeping" to intense dramas such as "The Blind Side."
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D.
Halle Berry
Halle Berry is an American actress and former fashion model acclaimed for her groundbreaking, award-winning performances in film and television.
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E.
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is an Academy Award–winning American actress renowned for her leading roles in films such as "Pretty Woman," "Erin Brockovich," and numerous other box-office hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Hilary Swank Description of subject: Hilary Swank is an American actress and two-time Academy Award winner known for her intense, transformative performances in films such as "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Insomnia
subject linked to:
The Karate Kid franchise
linked to: Hilary Swank
linked to: Hilary Swank