Bill Irwin
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Bill Irwin is an American actor and clown known for his work in theater, film, and television, including his performance as the voice and puppeteer of the robot TARS in "Interstellar."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Irwin canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1242851 — 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: Bill Irwin Context triple: [Interstellar, castMember, Bill Irwin]
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A.
Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette is an American magician, comedian, author, and outspoken skeptic best known as half of the magic duo Penn & Teller.
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B.
Steve Martin
Steve Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician renowned for his influential stand-up comedy, film roles, and contributions to American humor.
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C.
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker renowned for his stand-up, film roles, and multiple stints hosting the Academy Awards.
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D.
Guy Lewis
Guy Lewis was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse and popularizing the high-flying "Phi Slama Jama" teams of the 1980s.
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E.
Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor renowned for his deadpan delivery and influential comedy albums and sitcoms, including "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart."
- 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: Bill Irwin Target entity description: Bill Irwin is an American actor and clown known for his work in theater, film, and television, including his performance as the voice and puppeteer of the robot TARS in "Interstellar."
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A.
Penn Jillette
Penn Jillette is an American magician, comedian, author, and outspoken skeptic best known as half of the magic duo Penn & Teller.
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B.
Steve Martin
Steve Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician renowned for his influential stand-up comedy, film roles, and contributions to American humor.
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C.
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker renowned for his stand-up, film roles, and multiple stints hosting the Academy Awards.
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D.
Guy Lewis
Guy Lewis was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse and popularizing the high-flying "Phi Slama Jama" teams of the 1980s.
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E.
Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor renowned for his deadpan delivery and influential comedy albums and sitcoms, including "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Bill Irwin Description of subject: Bill Irwin is an American actor and clown known for his work in theater, film, and television, including his performance as the voice and puppeteer of the robot TARS in "Interstellar."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"Don't Worry, Be Happy"