Silas Selleck
E323627
Silas Selleck is the taciturn, morally ambiguous frontiersman who serves as the central protagonist in the 2015 Western film "Slow West."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silas Selleck canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3066036 — 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: Silas Selleck Context triple: [Slow West, mainCharacter, Silas Selleck]
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A.
Nolan Richardson
Nolan Richardson is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Arkansas to the 1994 NCAA championship with his up-tempo "40 Minutes of Hell" style.
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B.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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C.
Sean Patrick Duke
Sean Patrick Duke is the birth name of American actor Sean Astin, known for roles in films such as "The Goonies," "Rudy," and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
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D.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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E.
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor, director, and writer known for films like "The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire," and "The Mighty Ducks" series.
- 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: Silas Selleck Target entity description: Silas Selleck is the taciturn, morally ambiguous frontiersman who serves as the central protagonist in the 2015 Western film "Slow West."
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A.
Nolan Richardson
Nolan Richardson is an American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of Arkansas to the 1994 NCAA championship with his up-tempo "40 Minutes of Hell" style.
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B.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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C.
Sean Patrick Duke
Sean Patrick Duke is the birth name of American actor Sean Astin, known for roles in films such as "The Goonies," "Rudy," and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
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D.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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E.
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor, director, and writer known for films like "The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire," and "The Mighty Ducks" series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| alignment | antihero ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Slow West ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | revisionist Western ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Jay Cavendish
ⓘ
Payne ⓘ Rose Ross ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
frontiersman
ⓘ
morally ambiguous ⓘ taciturn ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | John Maclean ⓘ |
| fictionalTimePeriod | 19th century American frontier ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| guides | Jay Cavendish ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Silas Selleck ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Irish-American ⓘ |
| occupation |
bounty hunter
ⓘ
guide ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Fassbender ⓘ |
| productionCountryOfWork |
New Zealand
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| workOfFictionGenre | Western film ⓘ |
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: Silas Selleck Description of subject: Silas Selleck is the taciturn, morally ambiguous frontiersman who serves as the central protagonist in the 2015 Western film "Slow West."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.