Steve Guttenberg
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Steve Guttenberg is an American actor best known for his comedic leading roles in popular 1980s films such as the Police Academy series, Three Men and a Baby, and Cocoon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Guttenberg canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577794 — 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: Steve Guttenberg Context triple: [Cocoon, starredActor, Steve Guttenberg]
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A.
Thomas H. Kean
Thomas H. Kean is an American Republican politician and former governor of New Jersey who is best known for chairing the national commission that investigated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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B.
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani is an American lawyer and politician best known for serving as Mayor of New York City, particularly during and after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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C.
Buddy Israel
Buddy Israel is a Las Vegas magician-turned-mob informant whose decision to testify against the Mafia makes him the hunted focal point of the action film "Smokin' Aces."
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D.
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and former U.S. senator who starred at Princeton University before winning NBA championships with the New York Knicks.
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E.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
- 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: Steve Guttenberg Target entity description: Steve Guttenberg is an American actor best known for his comedic leading roles in popular 1980s films such as the Police Academy series, Three Men and a Baby, and Cocoon.
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A.
Thomas H. Kean
Thomas H. Kean is an American Republican politician and former governor of New Jersey who is best known for chairing the national commission that investigated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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B.
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani is an American lawyer and politician best known for serving as Mayor of New York City, particularly during and after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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C.
Buddy Israel
Buddy Israel is a Las Vegas magician-turned-mob informant whose decision to testify against the Mafia makes him the hunted focal point of the action film "Smokin' Aces."
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D.
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and former U.S. senator who starred at Princeton University before winning NBA championships with the New York Knicks.
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E.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
- 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: Steve Guttenberg Description of subject: Steve Guttenberg is an American actor best known for his comedic leading roles in popular 1980s films such as the Police Academy series, Three Men and a Baby, and Cocoon.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Can’t Stop the Music
subject linked to:
Can’t Stop the Music
subject linked to:
Carey Mahoney in Police Academy