Terry O'Quinn
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Terry O'Quinn is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of the enigmatic John Locke on the television series "Lost."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terry O'Quinn canonical | 4 |
| Terry O’Quinn | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3786336 — 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 O'Quinn Context triple: [Lost, leadActor, Terry O'Quinn]
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A.
William Petersen
William Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as forensic entomologist and team leader Gil Grissom on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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B.
Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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C.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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D.
Keith David
Keith David is an American actor and voice actor known for his deep, resonant voice and roles in films such as "The Thing," "They Live," and "Platoon," as well as extensive work in animation and video games.
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E.
William Fichtner
William Fichtner is an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous or morally complex roles in films such as "Heat," "Armageddon," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as the TV series "Prison Break."
- 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 O'Quinn Target entity description: Terry O'Quinn is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of the enigmatic John Locke on the television series "Lost."
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A.
William Petersen
William Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as forensic entomologist and team leader Gil Grissom on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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B.
Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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C.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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D.
Keith David
Keith David is an American actor and voice actor known for his deep, resonant voice and roles in films such as "The Thing," "They Live," and "Platoon," as well as extensive work in animation and video games.
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E.
William Fichtner
William Fichtner is an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous or morally complex roles in films such as "Heat," "Armageddon," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as the TV series "Prison Break."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 O'Quinn Description of subject: Terry O'Quinn is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of the enigmatic John Locke on the television series "Lost."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Terry O'Quinn
subject linked to:
The Interview
linked to: Terry O'Quinn
linked to: Terry O'Quinn
linked to: Terry O'Quinn