Brent Spiner
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Brent Spiner is an American actor best known for portraying the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and its related films.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brent Spiner canonical | 47 |
| Brent Spiner (fictionalized) | 1 |
| Brent Spiner as Dr. Arik Soong | 1 |
| Data – Brent Spiner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2834676 — 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: Brent Spiner Context triple: [Star Trek: The Next Generation, starredActor, Brent Spiner]
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A.
Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes is an American actor and director best known for playing Commander William Riker in the Star Trek franchise and for directing numerous episodes and films within the series.
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B.
Robert Picardo
Robert Picardo is an American actor best known for playing the Emergency Medical Hologram (the Doctor) on Star Trek: Voyager and for his extensive work in science fiction television and film.
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C.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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D.
Reginald Barclay
Reginald Barclay is a socially awkward yet brilliant Starfleet engineer from the Star Trek universe, best known for his recurring appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager.
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E.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
- 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: Brent Spiner Target entity description: Brent Spiner is an American actor best known for portraying the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and its related films.
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A.
Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan Frakes is an American actor and director best known for playing Commander William Riker in the Star Trek franchise and for directing numerous episodes and films within the series.
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B.
Robert Picardo
Robert Picardo is an American actor best known for playing the Emergency Medical Hologram (the Doctor) on Star Trek: Voyager and for his extensive work in science fiction television and film.
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C.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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D.
Reginald Barclay
Reginald Barclay is a socially awkward yet brilliant Starfleet engineer from the Star Trek universe, best known for his recurring appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager.
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E.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
- 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: Brent Spiner Description of subject: Brent Spiner is an American actor best known for portraying the android Lieutenant Commander Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and its related films.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Augments"
subject linked to:
Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Augments"
linked to: Brent Spiner
subject linked to:
Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Cold Station 12"
linked to: Brent Spiner
subject linked to:
Spiner
linked to: Brent Spiner
subject linked to:
Loree McBride