John C. Reilly
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John C. Reilly is an American actor known for his versatile performances in both dramatic films and broad comedies, including roles in movies like "Chicago," "Boogie Nights," and "Step Brothers."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John C. Reilly canonical | 45 |
| John Christopher Reilly | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1597443 — 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: John C. Reilly Context triple: [The Perfect Storm, starring, John C. Reilly]
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A.
John Cusack
John Cusack is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer known for his roles in films like "Say Anything..." and "High Fidelity" and for his outspoken political activism.
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B.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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C.
Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi is an American actor known for his character roles in films like "Saving Private Ryan," "Avatar," and the TV series "Friends."
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D.
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick is an American actor known for his work in film, theater, and television, particularly for iconic roles in movies like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "WarGames."
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E.
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."
- 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: John C. Reilly Target entity description: John C. Reilly is an American actor known for his versatile performances in both dramatic films and broad comedies, including roles in movies like "Chicago," "Boogie Nights," and "Step Brothers."
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A.
John Cusack
John Cusack is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer known for his roles in films like "Say Anything..." and "High Fidelity" and for his outspoken political activism.
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B.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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C.
Giovanni Ribisi
Giovanni Ribisi is an American actor known for his character roles in films like "Saving Private Ryan," "Avatar," and the TV series "Friends."
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D.
Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick is an American actor known for his work in film, theater, and television, particularly for iconic roles in movies like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "WarGames."
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: John C. Reilly Description of subject: John C. Reilly is an American actor known for his versatile performances in both dramatic films and broad comedies, including roles in movies like "Chicago," "Boogie Nights," and "Step Brothers."
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Christopher Reilly
subject surface form:
Chicago (film)
subject surface form:
Ralph