Aidan Quinn
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Aidan Quinn is an Irish-American actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including prominent roles in dramas and literary adaptations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aidan Quinn canonical | 43 |
| Aidan Quinn (American actor) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2352415 — 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: Aidan Quinn Context triple: [Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994 film), starring, Aidan Quinn]
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A.
Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne is an Irish actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in works like "The Usual Suspects" and the HBO series "In Treatment."
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B.
Denis O'Hare
Denis O'Hare is an American actor known for his versatile character roles in film, television, and theater, including prominent appearances in "American Horror Story" and "True Blood."
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C.
Colm Feore
Colm Feore is a Canadian-American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in works like "Bon Cop, Bad Cop," "The Chronicles of Riddick," and numerous Stratford Festival productions.
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D.
Brian d'Arcy James
Brian d'Arcy James is an American actor and singer known for his work on Broadway and in film and television, including acclaimed performances in productions like "Shrek the Musical" and the film "Spotlight."
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E.
Colm Meaney
Colm Meaney is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, as well as numerous film and television appearances.
- 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: Aidan Quinn Target entity description: Aidan Quinn is an Irish-American actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including prominent roles in dramas and literary adaptations.
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A.
Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne is an Irish actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in works like "The Usual Suspects" and the HBO series "In Treatment."
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B.
Denis O'Hare
Denis O'Hare is an American actor known for his versatile character roles in film, television, and theater, including prominent appearances in "American Horror Story" and "True Blood."
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C.
Colm Feore
Colm Feore is a Canadian-American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theatre, including roles in works like "Bon Cop, Bad Cop," "The Chronicles of Riddick," and numerous Stratford Festival productions.
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D.
Brian d'Arcy James
Brian d'Arcy James is an American actor and singer known for his work on Broadway and in film and television, including acclaimed performances in productions like "Shrek the Musical" and the film "Spotlight."
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E.
Colm Meaney
Colm Meaney is an Irish actor best known for his roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, as well as numerous film and television appearances.
- 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: Aidan Quinn Description of subject: Aidan Quinn is an Irish-American actor known for his versatile performances in film and television, including prominent roles in dramas and literary adaptations.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1990 film The Handmaid's Tale
subject linked to:
Desperately Seeking Susan (film)
subject linked to:
Desperately Seeking Susan (film)
linked to: Aidan Quinn
subject linked to:
Elementary (TV series)
subject linked to:
Michael Collins