Father Matt
E422855
Father Matt is a fictional Catholic priest character played by actor Ralph Waite, best known from his appearances on the television series "NCIS."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Father Matt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4223891 — 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: Father Matt Context triple: [Ralph Waite, portrayed, Father Matt]
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A.
Father Brennan
Father Brennan is a tormented priest in the 1976 horror film "The Omen" who desperately tries to warn the protagonists about the demonic nature of their child.
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B.
Father Andrew
Father Andrew is a kindly priest and mentor figure in Mark Twain's novel "The Prince and the Pauper," offering guidance and education to the pauper boy Tom Canty.
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C.
Father Murphy
Father Murphy is an American Western drama television series from the early 1980s, starring Merlin Olsen as a frontiersman who protects and cares for a group of orphaned children by posing as a priest.
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D.
Father Robinson
Father Robinson is the resourceful patriarch who leads and protects his shipwrecked family in the 1960 adventure film "Swiss Family Robinson."
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E.
Father Felician
Father Felician is a kindly Catholic priest who serves as a spiritual guide and protector to the heroine in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem "Evangeline."
- 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: Father Matt Target entity description: Father Matt is a fictional Catholic priest character played by actor Ralph Waite, best known from his appearances on the television series "NCIS."
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A.
Father Brennan
Father Brennan is a tormented priest in the 1976 horror film "The Omen" who desperately tries to warn the protagonists about the demonic nature of their child.
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B.
Father Andrew
Father Andrew is a kindly priest and mentor figure in Mark Twain's novel "The Prince and the Pauper," offering guidance and education to the pauper boy Tom Canty.
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C.
Father Murphy
Father Murphy is an American Western drama television series from the early 1980s, starring Merlin Olsen as a frontiersman who protects and cares for a group of orphaned children by posing as a priest.
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D.
Father Robinson
Father Robinson is the resourceful patriarch who leads and protects his shipwrecked family in the 1960 adventure film "Swiss Family Robinson."
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E.
Father Felician
Father Felician is a kindly Catholic priest who serves as a spiritual guide and protector to the heroine in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem "Evangeline."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | NCIS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| associatedWith | NCIS Major Case Response Team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithNetwork | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | American television ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fictionalProfession | priest ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasReligionInFiction | Roman Catholic Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableFor | appearances on NCIS ⓘ |
| occupation | Catholic priest ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | NCIS franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
American actor Ralph Waite
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ralph Waite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
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: Father Matt Description of subject: Father Matt is a fictional Catholic priest character played by actor Ralph Waite, best known from his appearances on the television series "NCIS."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.