Jan Vostrcil
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Jan Vostrcil was a Czech non-professional actor best known for his memorable role in Miloš Forman’s satirical film "The Firemen’s Ball."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan Vostrcil canonical | 2 |
| Jan Vostrčil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11299836 — 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: Jan Vostrcil Context triple: [The Firemen’s Ball, leadActor, Jan Vostrcil]
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A.
Tomáš Nosek
Tomáš Nosek is a Czech professional ice hockey forward who has played in the National Hockey League for teams including the Detroit Red Wings, Vegas Golden Knights, Boston Bruins, and New Jersey Devils.
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B.
Alexander Vondra
Alexander Vondra is a Czech politician and former dissident who played a significant role in the Velvet Revolution and later served in high-ranking diplomatic and government positions, including as foreign minister and defense minister of the Czech Republic.
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C.
Martin Straka
Martin Straka is a retired Czech professional ice hockey forward and Olympic gold medalist who enjoyed a long NHL career before becoming a prominent figure in Czech domestic hockey.
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D.
Jan Novák
Jan Novák was a Czech composer known for his neoclassical style and film scores, including the music for the film "Atentát."
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E.
Jan Triska
Jan Triska was a Czech-American actor known for his intense character roles in film, television, and theater, including notable performances in both European cinema and Hollywood productions.
- 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: Jan Vostrcil Target entity description: Jan Vostrcil was a Czech non-professional actor best known for his memorable role in Miloš Forman’s satirical film "The Firemen’s Ball."
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A.
Tomáš Nosek
Tomáš Nosek is a Czech professional ice hockey forward who has played in the National Hockey League for teams including the Detroit Red Wings, Vegas Golden Knights, Boston Bruins, and New Jersey Devils.
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B.
Alexander Vondra
Alexander Vondra is a Czech politician and former dissident who played a significant role in the Velvet Revolution and later served in high-ranking diplomatic and government positions, including as foreign minister and defense minister of the Czech Republic.
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C.
Martin Straka
Martin Straka is a retired Czech professional ice hockey forward and Olympic gold medalist who enjoyed a long NHL career before becoming a prominent figure in Czech domestic hockey.
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D.
Jan Novák
Jan Novák was a Czech composer known for his neoclassical style and film scores, including the music for the film "Atentát."
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E.
Jan Triska
Jan Triska was a Czech-American actor known for his intense character roles in film, television, and theater, including notable performances in both European cinema and Hollywood productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech person
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actor ⓘ film ⓘ film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ satirical film ⓘ |
| castMember | Jan Vostrcil ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czechoslovakia
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| director |
Miloš Forman
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linked to:
Milos Forman
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| ethnicGroup | Czech ⓘ |
| genre | satirical film ⓘ |
| hasRole | fireman (in The Firemen’s Ball) ⓘ |
| knownFor | role in The Firemen’s Ball ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Czech ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration |
Miloš Forman
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linked to:
Milos Forman
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| notableWork | The Firemen’s Ball ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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non-professional actor ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Czechoslovak New Wave cinema
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linked to:
Czechoslovak cinema
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| placeOfActivity |
Czech lands
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Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Firemen’s Ball ⓘ |
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: Jan Vostrcil Description of subject: Jan Vostrcil was a Czech non-professional actor best known for his memorable role in Miloš Forman’s satirical film "The Firemen’s Ball."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.