Ted McGinley
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Ted McGinley is an American actor best known for his roles on television series such as "Married... with Children," "Happy Days," and "The Love Boat."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ted McGinley canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3776976 — 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: Ted McGinley Context triple: [Dancing with the Stars (US) season 7, contestant, Ted McGinley]
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A.
Wayne Knight
Wayne Knight is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles as Newman on "Seinfeld" and Dennis Nedry in "Jurassic Park."
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B.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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C.
Denis Leary
Denis Leary is an American actor and comedian known for his acerbic stand-up style and roles in projects like the TV series "Rescue Me" and the "Ice Age" film franchise.
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D.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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E.
Nick Swardson
Nick Swardson is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his offbeat characters and frequent collaborations with Adam Sandler in various comedy films and TV shows.
- 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: Ted McGinley Target entity description: Ted McGinley is an American actor best known for his roles on television series such as "Married... with Children," "Happy Days," and "The Love Boat."
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A.
Wayne Knight
Wayne Knight is an American character actor and comedian best known for his roles as Newman on "Seinfeld" and Dennis Nedry in "Jurassic Park."
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B.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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C.
Denis Leary
Denis Leary is an American actor and comedian known for his acerbic stand-up style and roles in projects like the TV series "Rescue Me" and the "Ice Age" film franchise.
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D.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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E.
Nick Swardson
Nick Swardson is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his offbeat characters and frequent collaborations with Adam Sandler in various comedy films and TV shows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Ted McGinley Description of subject: Ted McGinley is an American actor best known for his roles on television series such as "Married... with Children," "Happy Days," and "The Love Boat."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jefferson D'Arcy
subject surface form:
Ted McGinley