Owen Kline
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Owen Kline is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his role in the film "The Squid and the Whale" and for directing the dark comedy "Funny Pages."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Owen Kline canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8184544 — 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: Owen Kline Context triple: [Kevin Kline, hasChild, Owen Kline]
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A.
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor, director, and writer known for films like "The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire," and "The Mighty Ducks" series.
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B.
Robin Cooke
Robin Cooke was a prominent British jurist who served as Lord Chief Justice of New Zealand and became a Law Lord in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Kristopher Steven Keach
Kristopher Steven Keach is one of the twin sons of English-American actress Jane Seymour and her former husband, actor-director James Keach.
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D.
Benjamin Dreyfuss
Benjamin Dreyfuss is an American journalist and actor, known both for his work in media and as the son of Academy Award–winning actor Richard Dreyfuss.
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E.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
- 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: Owen Kline Target entity description: Owen Kline is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his role in the film "The Squid and the Whale" and for directing the dark comedy "Funny Pages."
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A.
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor, director, and writer known for films like "The Breakfast Club," "St. Elmo's Fire," and "The Mighty Ducks" series.
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B.
Robin Cooke
Robin Cooke was a prominent British jurist who served as Lord Chief Justice of New Zealand and became a Law Lord in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Kristopher Steven Keach
Kristopher Steven Keach is one of the twin sons of English-American actress Jane Seymour and her former husband, actor-director James Keach.
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D.
Benjamin Dreyfuss
Benjamin Dreyfuss is an American journalist and actor, known both for his work in media and as the son of Academy Award–winning actor Richard Dreyfuss.
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E.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child actor
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film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film industry
ⓘ
independent cinema ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Joke
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The Anniversary Party NERFINISHED ⓘ The Squid and the Whale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterInWork | Frank Berkman in The Squid and the Whale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1991-10-14 ⓘ |
| directorOf | Funny Pages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Kline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureDirectorialDebut | Funny Pages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAsDirector | dark comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Owen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
A24
NERFINISHED
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Noah Baumbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Funny Pages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Squid and the Whale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Owen Kline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableGenreAsFilmmaker |
comedy
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dark comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Funny Pages
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Squid and the Whale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ filmmaker ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| parent |
Kevin Kline
NERFINISHED
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Phoebe Cates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Frank Berkman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Greta Kline
NERFINISHED
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Kevin Kline NERFINISHED ⓘ Phoebe Cates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf | Funny Pages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Greta Kline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActiveAsActor | 2000s ⓘ |
| yearsActiveAsDirector |
2010s
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2020s ⓘ |
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: Owen Kline Description of subject: Owen Kline is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his role in the film "The Squid and the Whale" and for directing the dark comedy "Funny Pages."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.