Lance Henriksen
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Lance Henriksen is an American character actor best known for his intense performances in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise and the TV series Millennium.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lance Henriksen canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2517546 — 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: Lance Henriksen Context triple: [The Quick and the Dead, castMember, Lance Henriksen]
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A.
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
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B.
Chris Sarandon
Chris Sarandon is an American actor known for his acclaimed supporting role in "Dog Day Afternoon" and for memorable performances in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "Fright Night."
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C.
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken is an American actor known for his distinctive voice, eccentric screen presence, and memorable roles in films such as "The Deer Hunter," "Pulp Fiction," and "Catch Me If You Can."
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D.
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence was an English character actor renowned for his intense performances in film and television, including iconic roles in the "Halloween" series and "The Great Escape."
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E.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
- 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: Lance Henriksen Target entity description: Lance Henriksen is an American character actor best known for his intense performances in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise and the TV series Millennium.
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A.
Michael Ironside
Michael Ironside is a Canadian actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in science fiction and action films such as "Total Recall," "Starship Troopers," and "Top Gun."
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B.
Chris Sarandon
Chris Sarandon is an American actor known for his acclaimed supporting role in "Dog Day Afternoon" and for memorable performances in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "Fright Night."
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C.
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken is an American actor known for his distinctive voice, eccentric screen presence, and memorable roles in films such as "The Deer Hunter," "Pulp Fiction," and "Catch Me If You Can."
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D.
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence was an English character actor renowned for his intense performances in film and television, including iconic roles in the "Halloween" series and "The Great Escape."
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E.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lance Henriksen Description of subject: Lance Henriksen is an American character actor best known for his intense performances in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise and the TV series Millennium.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
subject surface form:
Tarzan (1999 film)