Steve Butler
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Steve Butler is a fictional character portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones in the film "Heaven & Earth."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Butler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7631050 — 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 Butler Context triple: [Heaven & Earth, characterPlayedByTommyLeeJones, Steve Butler]
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A.
John K. Butler
John K. Butler was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Westerns and crime films.
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B.
Reg Butler
Reg Butler was a British sculptor known for his expressive, often skeletal metal figures and his prominence in postwar European modernist sculpture.
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C.
Bill Butler
Bill Butler was an acclaimed American cinematographer best known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Peter Butler
Peter Butler is an English football manager and former player known for coaching various national and club teams, including the Liberia national football team.
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E.
Michael C. Butler
Michael C. Butler is a cinematographer best known for his work on the blockbuster sequel film "Jaws 2."
- 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 Butler Target entity description: Steve Butler is a fictional character portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones in the film "Heaven & Earth."
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A.
John K. Butler
John K. Butler was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Westerns and crime films.
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B.
Reg Butler
Reg Butler was a British sculptor known for his expressive, often skeletal metal figures and his prominence in postwar European modernist sculpture.
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C.
Bill Butler
Bill Butler was an acclaimed American cinematographer best known for his influential work on landmark films of the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Peter Butler
Peter Butler is an English football manager and former player known for coaching various national and club teams, including the Liberia national football team.
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E.
Michael C. Butler
Michael C. Butler is a cinematographer best known for his work on the blockbuster sequel film "Jaws 2."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Heaven & Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
drama film
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war film ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Heaven and Earth (Le Ly Hayslip memoirs) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Oliver Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | fictional ⓘ |
| filmCountryOfOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Oliver Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| introducedInFilm | Heaven & Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfFictionalUniverse | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse | Heaven & Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the film Heaven & Earth ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Oliver Stone Vietnam War film trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tommy Lee Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedByInYear | Tommy Lee Jones in 1993 ⓘ |
| yearOfFictionalDebut | 1993 ⓘ |
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 Butler Description of subject: Steve Butler is a fictional character portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones in the film "Heaven & Earth."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.