Whigham
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Whigham is a surname most notably associated with American actor Shea Whigham, known for his character roles in film and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Whigham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8661505 — 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: Whigham Context triple: [Shea Whigham, familyName, Whigham]
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A.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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B.
Gifford
Gifford is a small unincorporated rural community located in Nez Perce County in the north-central region of Idaho, United States.
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C.
Gifford
Gifford is a surname most prominently associated with American football player and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
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D.
Gifford
Gifford is a British engineering consultancy renowned for its innovative structural and civil engineering projects, including landmark bridges and infrastructure works.
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E.
Howland
Howland is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in American history and public life.
- 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: Whigham Target entity description: Whigham is a surname most notably associated with American actor Shea Whigham, known for his character roles in film and television.
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A.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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B.
Gifford
Gifford is a small unincorporated rural community located in Nez Perce County in the north-central region of Idaho, United States.
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C.
Gifford
Gifford is a surname most prominently associated with American football player and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
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D.
Gifford
Gifford is a British engineering consultancy renowned for its innovative structural and civil engineering projects, including landmark bridges and infrastructure works.
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E.
Howland
Howland is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in American history and public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| child | Giorgia Whigham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1969-01-05
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1997-08-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | State University of New York at Purchase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName |
Whigham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Whigham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | character actor ⓘ |
| givenName | Shea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Shea Whigham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
13 Reasons Why
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American Hustle NERFINISHED ⓘ Boardwalk Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Fast & Furious 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Joker (2019 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kong: Skull Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Scream (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Take Shelter NERFINISHED ⓘ The Punisher (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ True Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actress ⓘ producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City, New York, United States
NERFINISHED
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Tallahassee, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Christine Whigham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
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: Whigham Description of subject: Whigham is a surname most notably associated with American actor Shea Whigham, known for his character roles in film and television.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.