Kurtwood Smith
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Kurtwood Smith is an American character actor best known for playing the strict father Red Forman on the sitcom "That '70s Show" and for roles in films like "RoboCop."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kurtwood Smith canonical | 8 |
| Kurtwood | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2665236 — 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: Kurtwood Smith Context triple: [Cedar Rapids, starring, Kurtwood Smith]
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A.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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B.
Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson was an acclaimed English character actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Full Monty," "In the Bedroom," and "Michael Clayton."
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C.
Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott is an American actor known for his distinctive deep voice, rugged Western persona, and roles in films such as "Tombstone," "The Big Lebowski," and "A Star Is Born."
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D.
Jack Warden
Jack Warden was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including notable roles in classics like "12 Angry Men," "Heaven Can Wait," and "Shampoo."
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E.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker known for his tough, stoic characters in films such as "The Fugitive," "No Country for Old Men," and "Men in Black."
- 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: Kurtwood Smith Target entity description: Kurtwood Smith is an American character actor best known for playing the strict father Red Forman on the sitcom "That '70s Show" and for roles in films like "RoboCop."
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A.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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B.
Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson was an acclaimed English character actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Full Monty," "In the Bedroom," and "Michael Clayton."
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C.
Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott is an American actor known for his distinctive deep voice, rugged Western persona, and roles in films such as "Tombstone," "The Big Lebowski," and "A Star Is Born."
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D.
Jack Warden
Jack Warden was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including notable roles in classics like "12 Angry Men," "Heaven Can Wait," and "Shampoo."
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E.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker known for his tough, stoic characters in films such as "The Fugitive," "No Country for Old Men," and "Men in Black."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Kurtwood Smith Description of subject: Kurtwood Smith is an American character actor best known for playing the strict father Red Forman on the sitcom "That '70s Show" and for roles in films like "RoboCop."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
RoboCop
this entity surface form:
Kurtwood