Matthew Modine
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Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Modine canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T364645 — 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: Matthew Modine Context triple: [Jobs (2013 film), starred, Matthew Modine]
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Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
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C.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including prominent performances in romantic comedies and dramas since the late 1980s.
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D.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker known for his tough, stoic characters in films such as "The Fugitive," "No Country for Old Men," and "Men in Black."
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E.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an acclaimed American actor and producer known for films like "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction," who has also been recognized for his humanitarian and peace-promoting work.
- 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: Matthew Modine Target entity description: Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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A.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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B.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
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C.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including prominent performances in romantic comedies and dramas since the late 1980s.
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D.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker known for his tough, stoic characters in films such as "The Fugitive," "No Country for Old Men," and "Men in Black."
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E.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an acclaimed American actor and producer known for films like "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction," who has also been recognized for his humanitarian and peace-promoting work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Matthew Modine Description of subject: Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
biographical film "Jobs" (2013)
subject linked to:
Mark Hulme
subject linked to:
Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket
subject linked to:
Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things
subject linked to:
Louden Swain in Vision Quest
subject linked to:
Dr. Don Francis in And the Band Played On