Kevin Sorbo
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Kevin Sorbo is an American actor best known for his lead role as Hercules in the 1990s television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Sorbo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6150726 — 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: Kevin Sorbo Context triple: [Soul Surfer, starring, Kevin Sorbo]
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A.
Brian Murray
Brian Murray was a South African-born actor and voice artist best known in animation for voicing the cyborg cook John Silver in Disney’s film "Treasure Planet."
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B.
Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman is an American actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in projects such as the Hellboy films, the TV series "Sons of Anarchy," and numerous genre and voice-acting performances.
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C.
Trajan Weaver
Trajan Weaver is the son of American television executive Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, who was a pioneering figure in the early days of network TV.
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D.
Victor Heerman
Victor Heerman was a British-born American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning adaptation of "Little Women" (1933).
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E.
Rob Freeman
Rob Freeman is a record producer and engineer best known for his work on several influential punk rock albums, including releases by the Ramones.
- 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: Kevin Sorbo Target entity description: Kevin Sorbo is an American actor best known for his lead role as Hercules in the 1990s television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys."
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A.
Brian Murray
Brian Murray was a South African-born actor and voice artist best known in animation for voicing the cyborg cook John Silver in Disney’s film "Treasure Planet."
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B.
Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman is an American actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in projects such as the Hellboy films, the TV series "Sons of Anarchy," and numerous genre and voice-acting performances.
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C.
Trajan Weaver
Trajan Weaver is the son of American television executive Sylvester "Pat" Weaver, who was a pioneering figure in the early days of network TV.
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D.
Victor Heerman
Victor Heerman was a British-born American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing the Academy Award–winning adaptation of "Little Women" (1933).
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E.
Rob Freeman
Rob Freeman is a record producer and engineer best known for his work on several influential punk rock albums, including releases by the Ramones.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
director
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| almaMater | Minnesota State University Moorhead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Kevin David Sorbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Captain Dylan Hunt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hercules NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-09-24 ⓘ |
| directedFilm | Let There Be Light NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Minnesota State University Moorhead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
German descent
ⓘ
Norwegian descent ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAutobiographicalWork | True Strength NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenreSpecialization |
Christian film
ⓘ
fantasy television ⓘ science fiction television ⓘ |
| isActiveIn | conservative political commentary ⓘ |
| knownFor |
playing Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
ⓘ
starring as Captain Dylan Hunt in Andromeda ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Sorbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Andromeda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
God's Not Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ Hercules: The Legendary Journeys NERFINISHED ⓘ Let There Be Light NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
author ⓘ director ⓘ film producer ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| partnerInMarriageSince | 1998 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mound, Minnesota, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInFilm |
God's Not Dead
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Let There Be Light NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInTelevisionSeries |
Andromeda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys NERFINISHED ⓘ Xena: Warrior Princess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| spouse | Sam Sorbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sufferedFrom |
aneurysm
ⓘ
strokes ⓘ |
| twitterHandle | @ksorbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: Kevin Sorbo Description of subject: Kevin Sorbo is an American actor best known for his lead role as Hercules in the 1990s television series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.