Nicolas Cage
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Nicolas Cage is an American actor known for his intense and eclectic performances across action, drama, and independent films.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nicolas Cage canonical | 82 |
| Rick Santoro – Nicolas Cage | 1 |
| Ronny Cammareri – Nicolas Cage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T773433 — 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: Nicolas Cage Context triple: [The Rock, starring, Nicolas Cage]
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A.
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "Batman Forever."
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B.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
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C.
Tim Roth
Tim Roth is an English actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as "Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," and "Rob Roy," as well as his collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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D.
Eric Bana
Eric Bana is an Australian actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "Hulk," "Munich," and "Troy."
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E.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
- 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: Nicolas Cage Target entity description: Nicolas Cage is an American actor known for his intense and eclectic performances across action, drama, and independent films.
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A.
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "Batman Forever."
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B.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe is an American actor known for his roles in films like "St. Elmo's Fire" and TV series such as "Parks and Recreation" and "9-1-1: Lone Star."
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C.
Tim Roth
Tim Roth is an English actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as "Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction," and "Rob Roy," as well as his collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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D.
Eric Bana
Eric Bana is an Australian actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "Hulk," "Munich," and "Troy."
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E.
Casper Van Dien
Casper Van Dien is an American actor best known for his leading role as Johnny Rico in the science fiction film "Starship Troopers."
- 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: Nicolas Cage Description of subject: Nicolas Cage is an American actor known for his intense and eclectic performances across action, drama, and independent films.
Referenced by (84)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rick Santoro – Nicolas Cage
subject surface form:
Tom Welles