Thomas Roy Skerritt
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Thomas Roy Skerritt is an American actor best known for his roles in films such as "M*A*S*H," "Alien," and "Top Gun," as well as the television series "Picket Fences."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Roy Skerritt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9305339 — 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: Thomas Roy Skerritt Context triple: [Tom Skerritt, birthName, Thomas Roy Skerritt]
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A.
Rob Morrow
Rob Morrow is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Northern Exposure" and "Numb3rs."
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B.
Anthony Redman
Anthony Redman is a film editor best known for his work on the 1990 crime drama "King of New York."
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C.
Bret Iwan
Bret Iwan is an American voice actor best known for succeeding Wayne Allwine as the official voice of Mickey Mouse in Disney productions.
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D.
Bill Hartnett
Bill Hartnett is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hartnett, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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E.
Joel David Moore
Joel David Moore is an American actor and director best known for his roles in films like "Avatar" and the TV series "Bones."
- 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: Thomas Roy Skerritt Target entity description: Thomas Roy Skerritt is an American actor best known for his roles in films such as "M*A*S*H," "Alien," and "Top Gun," as well as the television series "Picket Fences."
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A.
Rob Morrow
Rob Morrow is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Northern Exposure" and "Numb3rs."
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B.
Anthony Redman
Anthony Redman is a film editor best known for his work on the 1990 crime drama "King of New York."
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C.
Bret Iwan
Bret Iwan is an American voice actor best known for succeeding Wayne Allwine as the official voice of Mickey Mouse in Disney productions.
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D.
Bill Hartnett
Bill Hartnett is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hartnett, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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E.
Joel David Moore
Joel David Moore is an American actor and director best known for his roles in films like "Avatar" and the TV series "Bones."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Tom Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
A River Runs Through It
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alien NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold and Maude NERFINISHED ⓘ M*A*S*H NERFINISHED ⓘ Picket Fences NERFINISHED ⓘ Top Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Picket Fences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Alien
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Picket Fences NERFINISHED ⓘ Top Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-08-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Los Angeles
ⓘ
Wayne State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood film industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Andy Skerritt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colin Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ Emilia Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ Erin Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Roy Skerritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alien
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
M*A*S*H NERFINISHED ⓘ Picket Fences NERFINISHED ⓘ Top Gun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Captain Dallas
NERFINISHED
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Sheriff Jimmy Brock NERFINISHED ⓘ Viper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charlotte Shanks
NERFINISHED
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Julie Tokashiki NERFINISHED ⓘ Sue Oran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–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: Thomas Roy Skerritt Description of subject: Thomas Roy Skerritt is an American actor best known for his roles in films such as "M*A*S*H," "Alien," and "Top Gun," as well as the television series "Picket Fences."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.