Alan Arkin
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Alan Arkin was an American actor, director, and writer renowned for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater over a career spanning more than six decades.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Arkin canonical | 65 |
| Alan Wolf Arkin | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T660881 — 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: Alan Arkin Context triple: [Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, notableRecipient, Alan Arkin]
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A.
John Lithgow
John Lithgow is an American actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, known for roles ranging from the sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" to dramatic turns in works like "The Crown" and "Dexter."
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B.
John Houseman
John Houseman was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer best known for co-founding the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and for his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
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C.
Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon was an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile performances in both comedy and drama, starring in classics such as "Some Like It Hot," "The Apartment," and "Days of Wine and Roses."
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D.
Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his roles in films like "Bull Durham" and "Batman" and for creating and starring in the HBO series "Arliss."
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E.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
- 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: Alan Arkin Target entity description: Alan Arkin was an American actor, director, and writer renowned for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater over a career spanning more than six decades.
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A.
John Lithgow
John Lithgow is an American actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, known for roles ranging from the sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" to dramatic turns in works like "The Crown" and "Dexter."
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B.
John Houseman
John Houseman was a Romanian-born American actor and influential film and theater producer best known for co-founding the Mercury Theatre with Orson Welles and for his Oscar-winning role in "The Paper Chase."
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C.
Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon was an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile performances in both comedy and drama, starring in classics such as "Some Like It Hot," "The Apartment," and "Days of Wine and Roses."
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D.
Robert Wuhl
Robert Wuhl is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his roles in films like "Bull Durham" and "Batman" and for creating and starring in the HBO series "Arliss."
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E.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Alan Arkin Description of subject: Alan Arkin was an American actor, director, and writer renowned for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater over a career spanning more than six decades.
Referenced by (67)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Best Supporting Actor
linked to: Alan Arkin
subject linked to:
Jacob the Liar
subject linked to:
film "Escape from Sobibor"
subject linked to:
Sunshine Cleaning (2008 film)
linked to: Alan Arkin