Brian Backer
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Brian Backer is an American actor best known for his role as the shy and awkward Mark Ratner in the 1982 teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brian Backer canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10355344 — 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: Brian Backer Context triple: [Fast Times at Ridgemont High, stars, Brian Backer]
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A.
Jacob Backer
Jacob Backer was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his refined portraits and history paintings, influenced by his early association with Rembrandt’s circle.
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B.
Chris Bergoch
Chris Bergoch is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his collaborations with director Sean Baker on acclaimed independent films such as "The Florida Project" and "Tangerine."
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C.
John Reister
John Reister was an early settler and landowner after whom the community of Reisterstown, Maryland, was named.
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D.
Trevor Back
Trevor Back is a researcher known for co-authoring the landmark 2021 Nature paper on AlphaFold, DeepMind’s breakthrough AI system for protein structure prediction.
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E.
Brian Blosil
Brian Blosil is an American record producer and the former husband of entertainer Marie Osmond.
- 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: Brian Backer Target entity description: Brian Backer is an American actor best known for his role as the shy and awkward Mark Ratner in the 1982 teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
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A.
Jacob Backer
Jacob Backer was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his refined portraits and history paintings, influenced by his early association with Rembrandt’s circle.
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B.
Chris Bergoch
Chris Bergoch is an American screenwriter and producer best known for his collaborations with director Sean Baker on acclaimed independent films such as "The Florida Project" and "Tangerine."
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C.
John Reister
John Reister was an early settler and landowner after whom the community of Reisterstown, Maryland, was named.
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D.
Trevor Back
Trevor Back is a researcher known for co-authoring the landmark 2021 Nature paper on AlphaFold, DeepMind’s breakthrough AI system for protein structure prediction.
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E.
Brian Blosil
Brian Blosil is an American record producer and the former husband of entertainer Marie Osmond.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | teen comedy film ⓘ |
| hasGenreAsPerceivedActorType | comedy ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewsAbout | Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| hasNameInEnglish | Brian Backer ⓘ |
| hasNotabilityReason | role as Mark Ratner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| hasRoleType | supporting actor ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
articles about Fast Times at Ridgemont High cast
ⓘ
film reviews of Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying a shy and awkward teenager in Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| notableWork | Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Mark Ratner ⓘ |
| portrayedTeenagerIn | Fast Times at Ridgemont High ⓘ |
| usesScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Brian Backer Description of subject: Brian Backer is an American actor best known for his role as the shy and awkward Mark Ratner in the 1982 teen comedy film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.