Dennis Weaver
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Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as in films and TV movies throughout the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Weaver canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2120339 — 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: Dennis Weaver Context triple: [Duel at Diablo, starring, Dennis Weaver]
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A.
Pernell Roberts
Pernell Roberts was an American actor best known for his role as Adam Cartwright on the television western series "Bonanza" and later as the title character on the medical drama "Trapper John, M.D."
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B.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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C.
Tom Willis
Tom Willis is a prominent character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as George and Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in an interracial marriage that often highlights social and racial tensions with humor.
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D.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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E.
Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver was an influential American television executive best known for shaping early network TV programming and serving as president of NBC.
- 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: Dennis Weaver Target entity description: Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as in films and TV movies throughout the mid-20th century.
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A.
Pernell Roberts
Pernell Roberts was an American actor best known for his role as Adam Cartwright on the television western series "Bonanza" and later as the title character on the medical drama "Trapper John, M.D."
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B.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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C.
Tom Willis
Tom Willis is a prominent character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as George and Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in an interracial marriage that often highlights social and racial tensions with humor.
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D.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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E.
Sylvester Weaver
Sylvester Weaver was an influential American television executive best known for shaping early network TV programming and serving as president of NBC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Dennis Weaver Description of subject: Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as in films and TV movies throughout the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David Mann