Gene Reynolds
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Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gene Reynolds canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1200142 — 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: Gene Reynolds Context triple: [Boys Town, starring, Gene Reynolds]
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A.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
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B.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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C.
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist best known for his hard science fiction novels such as "Timescape" and his contributions to the Galactic Center series.
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D.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
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E.
Maye Haldeman
Maye Haldeman is a Canadian-South African model and dietitian best known as Maye Musk, the mother of entrepreneur Elon Musk and a prominent figure in fashion and nutrition.
- 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: Gene Reynolds Target entity description: Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
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A.
Paul Darrow
Paul Darrow was the son of famed American lawyer Clarence Darrow and a businessman who managed many of his father's financial affairs.
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B.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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C.
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist best known for his hard science fiction novels such as "Timescape" and his contributions to the Galactic Center series.
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D.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
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E.
Maye Haldeman
Maye Haldeman is a Canadian-South African model and dietitian best known as Maye Musk, the mother of entrepreneur Elon Musk and a prominent figure in fashion and nutrition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Directors Guild of America Award
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Awards ⓘ
surface form:
Primetime Emmy Award
|
| birthName | Eugene Reynolds Blumenthal ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf |
MASH
ⓘ
surface form:
M*A*S*H (TV series)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-04-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-02-03 ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Lou Grant
ⓘ
surface form:
Lou Grant (TV series)
MASH ⓘ
surface form:
M*A*S*H (TV series)
Room 222 ⓘ
surface form:
Room 222 (TV series)
|
| familyName | Blumenthal ⓘ |
| genre |
television comedy
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Eugene ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Directors Guild of America ⓘ |
| name | Gene Reynolds self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-creating the television series M*A*S*H
ⓘ
producing socially conscious television dramas ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lou Grant
ⓘ
surface form:
Lou Grant (TV series)
MASH ⓘ
surface form:
M*A*S*H (TV series)
Room 222 ⓘ
surface form:
Room 222 (TV series)
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cleveland, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Burbank, California
ⓘ
surface form:
Burbank, California, United States
|
| positionHeld |
Directors Guild of America
ⓘ
surface form:
President of the Directors Guild of America
|
| producerOf |
Lou Grant
ⓘ
surface form:
Lou Grant (TV series)
MASH ⓘ
surface form:
M*A*S*H (TV series)
Room 222 ⓘ
surface form:
Room 222 (TV series)
|
| spouse |
Ann Sweeny
ⓘ
Bonnie Jones ⓘ |
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: Gene Reynolds Description of subject: Gene Reynolds was an American actor and Emmy-winning television producer and director, best known for co-creating and producing the acclaimed TV series M*A*S*H.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bad Little Angel