Terry Kinney
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film
film director
human
stage actor
television actor
television miniseries
television series
theatre company
theatre director
Terry Kinney is an American actor and director best known as a co-founder of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and for his work in film and television, including the series "Oz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terry Kinney canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3551124 — 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: Terry Kinney Context triple: [Gary Sinise, coFoundedWith, Terry Kinney]
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A.
Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Tucker is an American actor known for his intense, character-driven roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Kingdom," "Westworld," and "City on a Hill."
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B.
John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in film and television, including notable performances in works like "Fargo," "Zodiac," and "American Horror Story."
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C.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
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D.
John Dailey
John Dailey is an American politician serving as the mayor of Tallahassee, Florida.
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E.
Tim Daly
Tim Daly is an American actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Wings" and "Madam Secretary," as well as his voice work as Superman in animated DC productions.
- 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: Terry Kinney Target entity description: Terry Kinney is an American actor and director best known as a co-founder of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and for his work in film and television, including the series "Oz."
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A.
Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Tucker is an American actor known for his intense, character-driven roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Kingdom," "Westworld," and "City on a Hill."
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B.
John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in film and television, including notable performances in works like "Fargo," "Zodiac," and "American Horror Story."
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C.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
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D.
John Dailey
John Dailey is an American politician serving as the mayor of Tallahassee, Florida.
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E.
Tim Daly
Tim Daly is an American actor best known for his roles in television series such as "Wings" and "Madam Secretary," as well as his voice work as Superman in animated DC productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ television miniseries ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ theatre company ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| coFounded | Steppenwolf Theatre Company ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Kinney ⓘ |
| fictionalCharacterIn | Oz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Terry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| location | Chicago ⓘ |
| memberOf | Steppenwolf Theatre Company ⓘ |
| name | Terry Kinney ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting in the HBO series Oz
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co-founding Steppenwolf Theatre Company ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Billions
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Devil in a Blue Dress ⓘ Inventing Anna ⓘ Oz ⓘ Sleepers ⓘ The Firm ⓘ The Good Wife ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ producer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | HBO ⓘ |
| portrayed | Tim McManus ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Terry Kinney Description of subject: Terry Kinney is an American actor and director best known as a co-founder of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company and for his work in film and television, including the series "Oz."
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Last of the Mohicans
subject linked to:
Good Behavior (TV series)
subject linked to:
TV series "Oz"
subject linked to:
The Watcher
subject linked to:
The Unusuals (TV series)