Jerry Houser
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Jerry Houser is an American actor best known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s film and television comedies, including "Summer of '42" and "Slap Shot."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerry Houser canonical | 4 |
| Zachery Ty Bryan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3621988 — 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: Jerry Houser Context triple: [A Wedding, hasCastMember, Jerry Houser]
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A.
Jimmie Allen
Jimmie Allen is an American country music singer and songwriter known for hits like "Best Shot" and for breaking through as one of the few prominent Black artists in modern country music.
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B.
Sam W. Hunt
Sam W. Hunt is an American politician who served as a member of the Washington State Legislature.
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C.
Cody Chesnutt
Cody Chesnutt is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his raw, genre-blending soul, rock, and R&B music and his influential early-2000s work.
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D.
Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt is an American country music singer and songwriter known for blending country with pop and R&B influences on hits like "Body Like a Back Road."
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E.
Wayne Newman
Wayne Newman is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Newman, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
- 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: Jerry Houser Target entity description: Jerry Houser is an American actor best known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s film and television comedies, including "Summer of '42" and "Slap Shot."
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A.
Jimmie Allen
Jimmie Allen is an American country music singer and songwriter known for hits like "Best Shot" and for breaking through as one of the few prominent Black artists in modern country music.
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B.
Sam W. Hunt
Sam W. Hunt is an American politician who served as a member of the Washington State Legislature.
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C.
Cody Chesnutt
Cody Chesnutt is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his raw, genre-blending soul, rock, and R&B music and his influential early-2000s work.
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D.
Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt is an American country music singer and songwriter known for blending country with pop and R&B influences on hits like "Body Like a Back Road."
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E.
Wayne Newman
Wayne Newman is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Newman, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Alvin & the Chipmunks (animated series)
ⓘ
G.I. Joe ⓘ
surface form:
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (animated series)
Slap Shot ⓘ Summer of '42 ⓘ The Brady Brides ⓘ The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special ⓘ The Brady Bunch Movie ⓘ The Smurfs (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Smurfs (animated series)
The Transformers (1984 TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Transformers (animated series)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Houser ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
television comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
animation
ⓘ
film ⓘ television ⓘ |
| name | Jerry Houser self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Slap Shot
ⓘ
Summer of '42 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
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: Jerry Houser Description of subject: Jerry Houser is an American actor best known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s film and television comedies, including "Summer of '42" and "Slap Shot."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zachery Ty Bryan