Ribisi
E183664
Ribisi is the surname of American actor Giovanni Ribisi, known for his roles in films like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Avatar" and the TV series "Friends."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ribisi canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1638872 — 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: Ribisi Context triple: [Giovanni Ribisi, familyName, Ribisi]
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A.
Taro
Taro is a common Japanese male given name, often written with kanji meaning "eldest son" or similar traditional connotations.
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B.
Tsévié
Tsévié is a town in southern Togo that serves as an important regional center for trade and agriculture.
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C.
Binga
Binga is a town and district in northwestern Zimbabwe known for its location on the southern shores of Lake Kariba and its association with the Tonga people.
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D.
Beni
Beni is a sparsely populated, largely Amazonian department in northeastern Bolivia known for its tropical lowlands, cattle ranching, and rich indigenous cultures.
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E.
Beni
Beni is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that became internationally known as a major hotspot of conflict and public health crises, including serving as the epicenter of the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
- 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: Ribisi Target entity description: Ribisi is the surname of American actor Giovanni Ribisi, known for his roles in films like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Avatar" and the TV series "Friends."
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A.
Taro
Taro is a common Japanese male given name, often written with kanji meaning "eldest son" or similar traditional connotations.
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B.
Tsévié
Tsévié is a town in southern Togo that serves as an important regional center for trade and agriculture.
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C.
Binga
Binga is a town and district in northwestern Zimbabwe known for its location on the southern shores of Lake Kariba and its association with the Tonga people.
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D.
Beni
Beni is a sparsely populated, largely Amazonian department in northeastern Bolivia known for its tropical lowlands, cattle ranching, and rich indigenous cultures.
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E.
Beni
Beni is a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that became internationally known as a major hotspot of conflict and public health crises, including serving as the epicenter of the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
American actress ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Avatar (2009 film)
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surface form:
Avatar
Friends ⓘ Saving Private Ryan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1974-12-17 ⓘ |
| familyName | Ribisi self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName |
Antonino
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surface form:
Antonino Giovanni
|
| languageOfOrigin | Italian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Avatar (2009 film)
ⓘ
surface form:
Avatar
Boiler Room ⓘ Friends ⓘ Saving Private Ryan ⓘ Sneaky Pete ⓘ Ted ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actor
ⓘ
television actor ⓘ |
| parent | Al Ribisi ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| playedCharacter |
Frank Buffay Jr.
ⓘ
Parker Selfridge ⓘ Private Irwin Wade ⓘ |
| sibling | Marissa Ribisi ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Al Ribisi
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Giovanni Ribisi ⓘ Marissa Ribisi ⓘ |
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: Ribisi Description of subject: Ribisi is the surname of American actor Giovanni Ribisi, known for his roles in films like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Avatar" and the TV series "Friends."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Antonino Giovanni Ribisi
subject surface form:
Giovanni Ribisi