Steve McQueen
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Steve McQueen was an American actor and cultural icon of the 1960s and 1970s, famed for his cool, anti-hero persona in films such as "Bullitt," "The Great Escape," and "The Thomas Crown Affair."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve McQueen canonical | 37 |
| Terrence Stephen McQueen | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2120266 — 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: Steve McQueen Context triple: [Soldier in the Rain, starring, Steve McQueen]
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Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker and video artist best known for directing the Academy Award–winning film "12 Years a Slave" and for his influential work in contemporary art and cinema.
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B.
Paul Newman
Paul Newman was an acclaimed American actor, film director, and philanthropist, renowned for his roles in classic films like "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and for founding the charitable food company Newman's Own.
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C.
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider was an American actor best known for his intense, everyman performances in films such as "The French Connection," "All That Jazz," and "Jaws."
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D.
Jon Voight
Jon Voight is an American actor acclaimed for his powerful performances in films such as "Midnight Cowboy," "Deliverance," and "Coming Home," for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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E.
Al Pacino
Al Pacino is an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, charismatic performances in classic films such as The Godfather series, Scarface, and Scent of a Woman.
- 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: Steve McQueen Target entity description: Steve McQueen was an American actor and cultural icon of the 1960s and 1970s, famed for his cool, anti-hero persona in films such as "Bullitt," "The Great Escape," and "The Thomas Crown Affair."
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A.
Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen is a British filmmaker and video artist best known for directing the Academy Award–winning film "12 Years a Slave" and for his influential work in contemporary art and cinema.
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B.
Paul Newman
Paul Newman was an acclaimed American actor, film director, and philanthropist, renowned for his roles in classic films like "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and for founding the charitable food company Newman's Own.
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C.
Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider was an American actor best known for his intense, everyman performances in films such as "The French Connection," "All That Jazz," and "Jaws."
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D.
Jon Voight
Jon Voight is an American actor acclaimed for his powerful performances in films such as "Midnight Cowboy," "Deliverance," and "Coming Home," for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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E.
Al Pacino
Al Pacino is an acclaimed American actor known for his intense, charismatic performances in classic films such as The Godfather series, Scarface, and Scent of a Woman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Steve McQueen Description of subject: Steve McQueen was an American actor and cultural icon of the 1960s and 1970s, famed for his cool, anti-hero persona in films such as "Bullitt," "The Great Escape," and "The Thomas Crown Affair."
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ford Mustang Bullitt edition
subject surface form:
The Magnificent Seven (1960 film)
subject surface form:
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)
subject surface form:
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968 film)
subject surface form:
The Reivers (1969 film)
this entity surface form:
Terrence Stephen McQueen
subject surface form:
Bullitt (film)
this entity surface form:
Terrence Stephen McQueen