Michael Beck
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Michael Beck is an American actor best known for his leading role as Swan in the cult classic film "The Warriors" and for starring opposite Olivia Newton-John in the musical fantasy "Xanadu."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Beck canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11773625 — 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: Michael Beck Context triple: [The Warriors, castMember, Michael Beck]
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A.
Michael Culver
Michael Culver is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "A Passage to India" and "The Empire Strikes Back."
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B.
Brian David Willis
Brian David Willis is a musician best known as a member of the American rock band Quarterflash.
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C.
Jason Beck
Jason Beck is the mayor of Peoria, Arizona, overseeing the city's local government and municipal affairs.
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D.
Andrew Dorff
Andrew Dorff was an American country music songwriter known for penning hits for artists such as Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, and Rascal Flatts.
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E.
Jeffrey Reiner
Jeffrey Reiner is an American television director, producer, and writer known for his work on series such as Friday Night Lights and The Affair.
- 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: Michael Beck Target entity description: Michael Beck is an American actor best known for his leading role as Swan in the cult classic film "The Warriors" and for starring opposite Olivia Newton-John in the musical fantasy "Xanadu."
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A.
Michael Culver
Michael Culver is a British actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "A Passage to India" and "The Empire Strikes Back."
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B.
Brian David Willis
Brian David Willis is a musician best known as a member of the American rock band Quarterflash.
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C.
Jason Beck
Jason Beck is the mayor of Peoria, Arizona, overseeing the city's local government and municipal affairs.
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D.
Andrew Dorff
Andrew Dorff was an American country music songwriter known for penning hits for artists such as Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, and Rascal Flatts.
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E.
Jeffrey Reiner
Jeffrey Reiner is an American television director, producer, and writer known for his work on series such as Friday Night Lights and The Affair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Warriors ⓘ |
| co-starredIn | Xanadu ⓘ |
| co-starredWith | Olivia Newton-John ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Beck ⓘ |
| genre |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowingFor | The Warriors ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Beck ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading role as Swan in The Warriors
ⓘ
starring opposite Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Warriors
ⓘ
Xanadu ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
ⓘ
American television industry ⓘ |
| portrayed | Swan ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Michael Beck Description of subject: Michael Beck is an American actor best known for his leading role as Swan in the cult classic film "The Warriors" and for starring opposite Olivia Newton-John in the musical fantasy "Xanadu."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.