Joe Costner
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Joe Costner is an American actor and the son of Academy Award–winning actor and filmmaker Kevin Costner.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Costner canonical | 6 |
| Hayes Costner | 1 |
| Liam Costner | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T933896 — 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: Joe Costner Context triple: [Kevin Costner, hasChild, Joe Costner]
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A.
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner is an American actor and filmmaker known for leading roles in films such as "Dances with Wolves," "Field of Dreams," and "The Bodyguard."
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B.
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from action and science fiction to drama and comedy, including iconic roles in movies like "Escape from New York," "The Thing," and "Tombstone."
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C.
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges is an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Big Lebowski," "Crazy Heart," and "True Grit."
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D.
Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," "Titanic," and "Apollo 13."
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E.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor known for his leading roles in films such as "American Gigolo," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
- 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: Joe Costner Target entity description: Joe Costner is an American actor and the son of Academy Award–winning actor and filmmaker Kevin Costner.
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A.
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner is an American actor and filmmaker known for leading roles in films such as "Dances with Wolves," "Field of Dreams," and "The Bodyguard."
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B.
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from action and science fiction to drama and comedy, including iconic roles in movies like "Escape from New York," "The Thing," and "Tombstone."
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C.
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges is an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Big Lebowski," "Crazy Heart," and "True Grit."
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D.
Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," "Titanic," and "Apollo 13."
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E.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor known for his leading roles in films such as "American Gigolo," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award ⓘ |
| child | Joe Costner self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Kevin Costner
ⓘ
surface form:
Costner
|
| father | Kevin Costner ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Joe ⓘ |
| hasLastNameInCommonWith | Kevin Costner ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Kevin Costner ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | being the son of Kevin Costner ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Joe Costner self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Costner family ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
actor ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| residence | 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: Joe Costner Description of subject: Joe Costner is an American actor and the son of Academy Award–winning actor and filmmaker Kevin Costner.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Liam Costner
this entity surface form:
Hayes Costner
subject surface form:
Kevin Costner