Craig Sheffer
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Craig Sheffer is an American actor best known for his leading roles in films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the drama "A River Runs Through It."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Craig Sheffer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9102426 — 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: Craig Sheffer Context triple: [A River Runs Through It, starring, Craig Sheffer]
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A.
James Scheffer
James Scheffer, better known as Jim Jonsin, is an American record producer and songwriter recognized for crafting hit tracks across hip hop and pop music.
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B.
Craig Storper
Craig Storper is a screenwriter best known for writing the Western film "Open Range," directed by and starring Kevin Costner.
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C.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer is an American writer known for his work on the animated series "Cowboy Bebop" and related projects.
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D.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
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E.
Scott Scherr
Scott Scherr is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the human capital management software company Ultimate Software.
- 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: Craig Sheffer Target entity description: Craig Sheffer is an American actor best known for his leading roles in films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the drama "A River Runs Through It."
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A.
James Scheffer
James Scheffer, better known as Jim Jonsin, is an American record producer and songwriter recognized for crafting hit tracks across hip hop and pop music.
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B.
Craig Storper
Craig Storper is a screenwriter best known for writing the Western film "Open Range," directed by and starring Kevin Costner.
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C.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer is an American writer known for his work on the animated series "Cowboy Bebop" and related projects.
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D.
Matthew Shafer
Matthew Shafer, better known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer-songwriter and musician recognized for his blend of rock, country, and pop influences.
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E.
Scott Scherr
Scott Scherr is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the human capital management software company Ultimate Software.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ |
| basedInIndustry | Hollywood film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheffer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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horror film ⓘ romantic drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Craig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableEra |
early 1990s
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late 1980s ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading roles in early 1990s films
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leading roles in late 1980s films ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Craig Sheffer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A River Runs Through It
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nightbreed NERFINISHED ⓘ One Tree Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Some Kind of Wonderful NERFINISHED ⓘ That Was Then... This Is Now NERFINISHED ⓘ The Program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Aaron Boone in Nightbreed
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Joe Kane in The Program ⓘ Keith Nelson in Some Kind of Wonderful NERFINISHED ⓘ Keith Scott in One Tree Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Jennings in That Was Then... This Is Now NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman Maclean in A River Runs Through It ⓘ |
| portrayedInWorkType |
college football player in The Program
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high school student in Some Kind of Wonderful ⓘ writer in A River Runs Through It ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Brad Pitt
NERFINISHED
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Clive Barker NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Redford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Craig Sheffer Description of subject: Craig Sheffer is an American actor best known for his leading roles in films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the drama "A River Runs Through It."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.