Jeffrey Combs
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Jeffrey Combs is an American actor best known for his cult-favorite roles in horror and science fiction films and television, including multiple characters in the Star Trek franchise and the Re-Animator series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeffrey Combs canonical | 3 |
| David Collins in Dark Shadows | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11046597 — 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: Jeffrey Combs Context triple: [The Frighteners, castMember, Jeffrey Combs]
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Miguel Ferrer
Miguel Ferrer was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in film and television, including notable performances in projects like "RoboCop," "Twin Peaks," and "NCIS: Los Angeles."
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B.
Richard Leigh
Richard Leigh was a British author best known as a co-writer of the controversial historical conspiracy book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail."
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C.
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen is an American actor best known for his role as divorce attorney Arnie Becker on the television series "L.A. Law" and for numerous film and TV appearances spanning several decades.
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D.
Brion James
Brion James was an American character actor best known for his distinctive roles in science fiction and action films, including his memorable performance as the replicant Leon in "Blade Runner."
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Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen is an American character actor best known for his intense performances in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise and the TV series Millennium.
- 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: Jeffrey Combs Target entity description: Jeffrey Combs is an American actor best known for his cult-favorite roles in horror and science fiction films and television, including multiple characters in the Star Trek franchise and the Re-Animator series.
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A.
Miguel Ferrer
Miguel Ferrer was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in film and television, including notable performances in projects like "RoboCop," "Twin Peaks," and "NCIS: Los Angeles."
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B.
Richard Leigh
Richard Leigh was a British author best known as a co-writer of the controversial historical conspiracy book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail."
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C.
Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Bernsen is an American actor best known for his role as divorce attorney Arnie Becker on the television series "L.A. Law" and for numerous film and TV appearances spanning several decades.
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D.
Brion James
Brion James was an American character actor best known for his distinctive roles in science fiction and action films, including his memorable performance as the replicant Leon in "Blade Runner."
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E.
Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen is an American character actor best known for his intense performances in science fiction and horror films such as the Alien franchise and the TV series Millennium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Babylon 5
NERFINISHED
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Justice League Unlimited NERFINISHED ⓘ The 4400 NERFINISHED ⓘ Transformers: Prime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-09-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts
NERFINISHED
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University of Washington ⓘ |
| familyName | Combs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeffrey ⓘ |
| hasChild | one daughter ⓘ |
| hasEyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| hasHairColor | brown ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Jeffrey Combs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cult-favorite roles in horror films
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multiple roles in Star Trek franchise ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beyond Re-Animator
NERFINISHED
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Bride of Re-Animator NERFINISHED ⓘ Castle Freak NERFINISHED ⓘ Doctor Mordrid NERFINISHED ⓘ From Beyond NERFINISHED ⓘ Necronomicon NERFINISHED ⓘ Re-Animator NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Enterprise NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Voyager NERFINISHED ⓘ The Frighteners NERFINISHED ⓘ The Guyver NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pit and the Pendulum (1991 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oxnard, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Brunt
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Edgar Allan Poe NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbert West NERFINISHED ⓘ Ratchet (voice) NERFINISHED ⓘ Shran NERFINISHED ⓘ Weyoun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Alice Cadogan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–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: Jeffrey Combs Description of subject: Jeffrey Combs is an American actor best known for his cult-favorite roles in horror and science fiction films and television, including multiple characters in the Star Trek franchise and the Re-Animator series.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David Collins in Dark Shadows