Clancy Brown
E14387
Clancy Brown is an American actor known for his deep voice and memorable roles in films like "The Shawshank Redemption" and as the voice of Mr. Krabs in "SpongeBob SquarePants."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clancy Brown canonical | 39 |
| Clancy Brown as Gunnar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T66609 — 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: Clancy Brown Context triple: [Chappaquiddick, stars, Clancy Brown]
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A.
Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins Jr. is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in films and television series such as "Capote," "Traffic," and "Westworld."
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B.
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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C.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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D.
Wesley Addy
Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
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E.
Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman is an American actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in projects such as the Hellboy films, the TV series "Sons of Anarchy," and numerous genre and voice-acting performances.
- 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: Clancy Brown Target entity description: Clancy Brown is an American actor known for his deep voice and memorable roles in films like "The Shawshank Redemption" and as the voice of Mr. Krabs in "SpongeBob SquarePants."
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A.
Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins Jr. is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in films and television series such as "Capote," "Traffic," and "Westworld."
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B.
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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C.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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D.
Wesley Addy
Wesley Addy was an American character actor known for his work on stage, film, and television, including roles in classic movies like "Kiss Me Deadly" and collaborations with director Robert Aldrich.
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E.
Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman is an American actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in projects such as the Hellboy films, the TV series "Sons of Anarchy," and numerous genre and voice-acting performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Clarence John Brown III ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-01-05 ⓘ |
| father | Clarence J. Brown Jr. ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
animated television
ⓘ
drama films ⓘ fantasy films ⓘ science fiction films ⓘ |
| hasChild | 2 children ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Clarence J. Brown (father) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Carnivàle
ⓘ
Highlander ⓘ SpongeBob SquarePants ⓘ Starship Troopers ⓘ The Flash (2014 TV series) ⓘ The Mandalorian (score) ⓘ
surface form:
The Mandalorian
The Shawshank Redemption (1994 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Shawshank Redemption
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Clancy Brown self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | deep voice ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Urbana, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Warcraft
ⓘ
surface form:
Blackhand in Warcraft (2016 film)
Brother Justin Crowe in Carnivàle ⓘ Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption ⓘ General Wade Eiling in The Flash (2014 TV series) ⓘ Kurt Caldwell in Dexter: New Blood ⓘ Lex Luthor in DC Animated Universe ⓘ Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants ⓘ Raymond Green in Promising Young Woman ⓘ Surtur in Thor: Ragnarok ⓘ The Kurgan in Highlander ⓘ |
| spouse | Jeanne Johnson ⓘ |
| voiceWork |
Baron Praxis in Jak II
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Hades in God of War III ⓘ Lex Luthor in DC Animated Universe ⓘ
surface form:
Lex Luthor in Justice League (animated series)
Lex Luthor in DC Animated Universe ⓘ
surface form:
Lex Luthor in Superman: The Animated Series
Montross in Star Wars: Bounty Hunter ⓘ Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants franchise ⓘ Mr. Krabs in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ⓘ
surface form:
Mr. Krabs in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Mr. Krabs in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run ⓘ Mr. Krabs in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie ⓘ Ryder Azadi in Star Wars Rebels ⓘ Savage Opress in Star Wars: The Clone Wars ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: Clancy Brown Description of subject: Clancy Brown is an American actor known for his deep voice and memorable roles in films like "The Shawshank Redemption" and as the voice of Mr. Krabs in "SpongeBob SquarePants."
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chappaquiddick
subject surface form:
The Shawshank Redemption
subject surface form:
Captain Byron Hadley
subject surface form:
Brother Justin Crowe
subject surface form:
Lex Luthor (DC Animated Universe)
subject surface form:
General Wade Eiling (The Flash TV series)
subject surface form:
Kurt Caldwell
this entity surface form:
Clancy Brown as Gunnar
subject surface form:
Justin Crowe
subject surface form:
Baron Praxis