Dennis Hopper
E48460
Dennis Hopper was an influential American actor and filmmaker best known for co-writing, directing, and starring in the landmark countercultural film "Easy Rider."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Hopper canonical | 94 |
| Dennis Hopper as Billy | 1 |
| Dennis Lee Hopper | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T379887 — 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: Dennis Hopper Context triple: [New Hollywood, notableDirector, Dennis Hopper]
-
A.
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for influential films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
-
B.
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider was an American actor best known for his intense, everyman performances in films such as "The French Connection," "All That Jazz," and "Jaws."
-
C.
Warren Oates
Warren Oates was an American character actor known for his rugged, intense performances in films such as "The Wild Bunch," "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," and numerous other Westerns and crime dramas of the 1960s and 1970s.
-
D.
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern is an acclaimed American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as "Nebraska," "Coming Home," and numerous collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
-
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: Dennis Hopper Target entity description: Dennis Hopper was an influential American actor and filmmaker best known for co-writing, directing, and starring in the landmark countercultural film "Easy Rider."
-
A.
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter known for influential films such as "Bonnie and Clyde," "Reds," and "Heaven Can Wait."
-
B.
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider was an American actor best known for his intense, everyman performances in films such as "The French Connection," "All That Jazz," and "Jaws."
-
C.
Warren Oates
Warren Oates was an American character actor known for his rugged, intense performances in films such as "The Wild Bunch," "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," and numerous other Westerns and crime dramas of the 1960s and 1970s.
-
D.
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern is an acclaimed American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as "Nebraska," "Coming Home," and numerous collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
-
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: Dennis Hopper Description of subject: Dennis Hopper was an influential American actor and filmmaker best known for co-writing, directing, and starring in the landmark countercultural film "Easy Rider."
Referenced by (96)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dennis Hopper
linked to: Dennis Hopper
subject linked to:
Frank Booth in Blue Velvet
subject linked to:
Photojournalist in Apocalypse Now
subject linked to:
Howard Payne in Speed