Kevin Smith
E131538
Kevin Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, and comic book writer best known for creating the View Askewniverse films such as "Clerks," "Mallrats," and "Dogma."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Smith canonical | 40 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1148121 — 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: Kevin Smith Context triple: [Shannon Elizabeth, hasWorkedWith, Kevin Smith]
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A.
Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg is a technology entrepreneur best known for founding the cloud-based business software company NetSuite.
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B.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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C.
Seth Green
Seth Green is an American actor, comedian, and producer best known for his voice work on "Family Guy" and for creating and starring in the stop-motion series "Robot Chicken."
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D.
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director known for his distinctive laugh and roles in numerous hit comedy films such as "Superbad," "Pineapple Express," and "Knocked Up."
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E.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
- 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: Kevin Smith Target entity description: Kevin Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, and comic book writer best known for creating the View Askewniverse films such as "Clerks," "Mallrats," and "Dogma."
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A.
Evan Goldberg
Evan Goldberg is a technology entrepreneur best known for founding the cloud-based business software company NetSuite.
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B.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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C.
Seth Green
Seth Green is an American actor, comedian, and producer best known for his voice work on "Family Guy" and for creating and starring in the stop-motion series "Robot Chicken."
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D.
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director known for his distinctive laugh and roles in numerous hit comedy films such as "Superbad," "Pineapple Express," and "Knocked Up."
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E.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Kevin Smith Description of subject: Kevin Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, and comic book writer best known for creating the View Askewniverse films such as "Clerks," "Mallrats," and "Dogma."
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.