Matthew Davis
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Matthew Davis is an American actor best known for his role as Alaric Saltzman on the supernatural drama television series "The Vampire Diaries."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matthew Davis canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6628141 — 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: Matthew Davis Context triple: [The Vampire Diaries, portrayedBy, Matthew Davis]
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A.
Clark Duke
Clark Duke is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for roles in projects like "Hot Tub Time Machine," "The Office," and "Kick-Ass."
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B.
Daniel Henney
Daniel Henney is an American actor and model known for his roles in films and television series such as "Big Hero 6," "Criminal Minds," and "The Wheel of Time."
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C.
Lewis Pullman
Lewis Pullman is an American actor known for roles in films such as "Top Gun: Maverick," "Bad Times at the El Royale," and "The Strangers: Prey at Night."
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D.
Ben Foster
Ben Foster is a British composer and orchestrator best known for his work on television scores, including contributions to the revived Doctor Who series.
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E.
Ben Foster
Ben Foster is an American actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "3:10 to Yuma," "Hell or High Water," and "The Messenger."
- 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: Matthew Davis Target entity description: Matthew Davis is an American actor best known for his role as Alaric Saltzman on the supernatural drama television series "The Vampire Diaries."
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A.
Clark Duke
Clark Duke is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for roles in projects like "Hot Tub Time Machine," "The Office," and "Kick-Ass."
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B.
Daniel Henney
Daniel Henney is an American actor and model known for his roles in films and television series such as "Big Hero 6," "Criminal Minds," and "The Wheel of Time."
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C.
Lewis Pullman
Lewis Pullman is an American actor known for roles in films such as "Top Gun: Maverick," "Bad Times at the El Royale," and "The Strangers: Prey at Night."
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D.
Ben Foster
Ben Foster is a British composer and orchestrator best known for his work on television scores, including contributions to the revived Doctor Who series.
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E.
Ben Foster
Ben Foster is an American actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "3:10 to Yuma," "Hell or High Water," and "The Messenger."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Blue Crush
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cult NERFINISHED ⓘ Legacies NERFINISHED ⓘ Legally Blonde NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Originals NERFINISHED ⓘ The Vampire Diaries NERFINISHED ⓘ What About Brian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1978-05-08 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Adam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alaric Saltzman NERFINISHED ⓘ Billy NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Huntington III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | White American ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Alaric Saltzman on The Vampire Diaries ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Matthew Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Adam in Blue Crush
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alaric Saltzman in Legacies ⓘ Alaric Saltzman in The Vampire Diaries ⓘ Billy in Pearl Harbor ⓘ Warner Huntington III in Legally Blonde ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blue Crush
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Legacies NERFINISHED ⓘ Legally Blonde NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Vampire Diaries NERFINISHED ⓘ What About Brian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
television producer ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Kiley Casciano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–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: Matthew Davis Description of subject: Matthew Davis is an American actor best known for his role as Alaric Saltzman on the supernatural drama television series "The Vampire Diaries."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.