Devon Sawa
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Devon Sawa is a Canadian actor best known for his 1990s teen heartthrob roles in films like Casper and Final Destination, as well as his later work in the TV series Chucky.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Devon Sawa canonical | 5 |
| Devon Edward Sawa | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4106111 — 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: Devon Sawa Context triple: [Now and Then, stars, Devon Sawa]
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A.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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B.
Josh Peck
Josh Peck is an American actor and comedian best known for his role on the Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh" and his subsequent work in film, television, and online media.
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C.
Josh Stewart
Josh Stewart is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Collector" series and "The Dark Knight Rises" as well as television shows such as "Criminal Minds."
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D.
Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Barbershop," "Think Like a Man," and "2 Fast 2 Furious," as well as various television series.
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E.
Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff is an American actor known for his intense performances in films such as "Blade," "Somewhere," and numerous independent and genre movies.
- 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: Devon Sawa Target entity description: Devon Sawa is a Canadian actor best known for his 1990s teen heartthrob roles in films like Casper and Final Destination, as well as his later work in the TV series Chucky.
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A.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
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B.
Josh Peck
Josh Peck is an American actor and comedian best known for his role on the Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh" and his subsequent work in film, television, and online media.
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C.
Josh Stewart
Josh Stewart is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Collector" series and "The Dark Knight Rises" as well as television shows such as "Criminal Minds."
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D.
Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Barbershop," "Think Like a Man," and "2 Fast 2 Furious," as well as various television series.
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E.
Stephen Dorff
Stephen Dorff is an American actor known for his intense performances in films such as "Blade," "Somewhere," and numerous independent and genre movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian actor
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actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Casper
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Chucky ⓘ Final Destination ⓘ Hunter Hunter ⓘ Idle Hands ⓘ Nikita ⓘ Now and Then ⓘ SLC Punk! ⓘ Slackers ⓘ The Fanatic ⓘ Wild America ⓘ |
| birthName |
Devon Edward Sawa
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linked to:
Devon Sawa
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| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-09-07 ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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teen film ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter
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son ⓘ |
| knownFor |
1990s teen heartthrob roles
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roles in horror films ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Devon Sawa ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Casper
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Chucky ⓘ Final Destination ⓘ Idle Hands ⓘ Now and Then ⓘ SLC Punk! ⓘ Slackers ⓘ Wild America ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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linked to:
Vancouver
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| portrayed | Stan in the music video "Stan" by Eminem ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| spouse | Dawni Sahanovitch ⓘ |
| twitterHandle | @DevonESawa ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1992–present ⓘ |
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: Devon Sawa Description of subject: Devon Sawa is a Canadian actor best known for his 1990s teen heartthrob roles in films like Casper and Final Destination, as well as his later work in the TV series Chucky.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Devon Sawa