Tom Selleck
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Tom Selleck is an American actor best known for his starring role as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series "Magnum, P.I."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Selleck canonical | 51 |
| Thomas William Selleck | 1 |
| Tom Selleck as Patrick O'Malley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5590813 — 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: Tom Selleck Context triple: [In & Out, starring, Tom Selleck]
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A.
Robert Davi
Robert Davi is an American actor, singer, and director best known for his tough-guy roles in films such as "Die Hard" and the James Bond movie "Licence to Kill."
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B.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor known for his leading roles in films such as "American Gigolo," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
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C.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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D.
James Garner
James Garner was an American actor best known for his charming, laid-back roles in television series like "Maverick" and "The Rockford Files" as well as numerous films.
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E.
David Caruso
David Caruso is an American actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the television series CSI: Miami.
- 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: Tom Selleck Target entity description: Tom Selleck is an American actor best known for his starring role as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series "Magnum, P.I."
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A.
Robert Davi
Robert Davi is an American actor, singer, and director best known for his tough-guy roles in films such as "Die Hard" and the James Bond movie "Licence to Kill."
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B.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor known for his leading roles in films such as "American Gigolo," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
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C.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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D.
James Garner
James Garner was an American actor best known for his charming, laid-back roles in television series like "Maverick" and "The Rockford Files" as well as numerous films.
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E.
David Caruso
David Caruso is an American actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the television series CSI: Miami.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Tom Selleck Description of subject: Tom Selleck is an American actor best known for his starring role as private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series "Magnum, P.I."
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tom Selleck
linked to: Tom Selleck
subject linked to:
Reagan family
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