James Spader
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James Spader is an American actor known for his distinctive voice and intense, often eccentric performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in series like "Boston Legal" and "The Blacklist."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Spader canonical | 14 |
| James Spader (himself) in The Office | 1 |
| James Todd Spader | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T654309 — 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: James Spader Context triple: [Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, hasNotableMultipleWinner, James Spader]
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A.
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as communications director Toby Ziegler on the political drama series "The West Wing."
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B.
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey is an American actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in film and television, including acclaimed performances in "The Usual Suspects," "American Beauty," and "House of Cards."
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C.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Josh Lyman on the political drama series "The West Wing."
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E.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
- 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: James Spader Target entity description: James Spader is an American actor known for his distinctive voice and intense, often eccentric performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in series like "Boston Legal" and "The Blacklist."
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A.
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as communications director Toby Ziegler on the political drama series "The West Wing."
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B.
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey is an American actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in film and television, including acclaimed performances in "The Usual Suspects," "American Beauty," and "House of Cards."
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C.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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D.
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Josh Lyman on the political drama series "The West Wing."
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E.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: James Spader Description of subject: James Spader is an American actor known for his distinctive voice and intense, often eccentric performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in series like "Boston Legal" and "The Blacklist."
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Todd Spader
this entity surface form:
James Spader (himself) in The Office
subject surface form:
Lincoln (2012 film)