Mike Starr
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Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Starr canonical | 15 |
| Starr | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T155690 — 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: Mike Starr Context triple: [The Bodyguard, castMember, Mike Starr]
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A.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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B.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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C.
Travis Beacham
Travis Beacham is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Jim Loscutoff
Jim Loscutoff was an American professional basketball forward best known for his rugged defense and seven NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- 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: Mike Starr Target entity description: Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
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A.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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B.
Brian Bilello
Brian Bilello is an American soccer executive best known for leading Major League Soccer’s New England Revolution as the club’s president.
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C.
Travis Beacham
Travis Beacham is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the science fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Jim Loscutoff
Jim Loscutoff was an American professional basketball forward best known for his rugged defense and seven NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Starr
ⓘ
linked to:
Mike Starr
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mike
ⓘ
linked to:
Michael
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mike Starr ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | large physical stature ⓘ |
| notableFor |
frequent roles as mobsters
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frequent roles as tough guys ⓘ imposing screen presence ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dumb and Dumber
ⓘ
Ed Wood ⓘ Goodfellas ⓘ Law & Order ⓘ Miller's Crossing ⓘ The Bodyguard ⓘ The Sopranos ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| typeOfRole |
character roles
ⓘ
supporting roles ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Mike Starr Description of subject: Mike Starr is an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as tough guys or mobsters in films and television.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mike Starr