Bill Paxton
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Bill Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," "Titanic," and "Apollo 13."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Paxton canonical | 67 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577740 — 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: Bill Paxton Context triple: [Apollo 13, starring, Bill Paxton]
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A.
Danny Glover
Danny Glover is an American actor and activist best known for his roles in films such as the "Lethal Weapon" series and "The Color Purple."
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B.
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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C.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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D.
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins was an acclaimed English actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "The Long Good Friday," "Mona Lisa," and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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E.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
- 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: Bill Paxton Target entity description: Bill Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," "Titanic," and "Apollo 13."
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A.
Danny Glover
Danny Glover is an American actor and activist best known for his roles in films such as the "Lethal Weapon" series and "The Color Purple."
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B.
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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C.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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D.
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins was an acclaimed English actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "The Long Good Friday," "Mona Lisa," and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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E.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
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: Bill Paxton Description of subject: Bill Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," "Titanic," and "Apollo 13."
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Thunderbirds
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Haise
subject linked to:
Bill Harding in Twister
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Randall McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys
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Master Sergeant Farell in Edge of Tomorrow
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Simon
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Bill Paxton as Dale "Hurricane" Dixon
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Brent Hanley