Eric Braeden
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Eric Braeden is a German-born American actor best known for his long-running role as Victor Newman on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Braeden canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4301406 — 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: Eric Braeden Context triple: [Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, notableRecipient, Eric Braeden]
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A.
Tim Reid
Tim Reid is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "WKRP in Cincinnati," "Simon & Simon," and "Frank's Place."
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B.
Warren Foster
Warren Foster was an American animation writer best known for his influential work on classic Warner Bros. cartoons, including many featuring characters like Foghorn Leghorn.
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C.
Luke Perry
Luke Perry was an American actor best known for his role as Dylan McKay on the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210."
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D.
Michael Vidal
Michael Vidal is a local political leader who serves as the mayor of the Maltese town of Ramla.
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E.
Scott Bakula
Scott Bakula is an American actor best known for his leading roles in the science-fiction television series "Quantum Leap" and "Star Trek: Enterprise."
- 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: Eric Braeden Target entity description: Eric Braeden is a German-born American actor best known for his long-running role as Victor Newman on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
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A.
Tim Reid
Tim Reid is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "WKRP in Cincinnati," "Simon & Simon," and "Frank's Place."
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B.
Warren Foster
Warren Foster was an American animation writer best known for his influential work on classic Warner Bros. cartoons, including many featuring characters like Foghorn Leghorn.
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C.
Luke Perry
Luke Perry was an American actor best known for his role as Dylan McKay on the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210."
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D.
Michael Vidal
Michael Vidal is a local political leader who serves as the mayor of the Maltese town of Ramla.
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E.
Scott Bakula
Scott Bakula is an American actor best known for his leading roles in the science-fiction television series "Quantum Leap" and "Star Trek: Enterprise."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American film industry
NERFINISHED
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American television industry ⓘ |
| alternateName | Hans Gudegast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
NERFINISHED
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Soap Opera Digest Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Hans Jörg Gudegast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| child | Christian Gudegast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | naturalized citizen of the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-04-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Montana (attended) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | German ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | soap opera ⓘ |
| hasGenreOfWork | daytime drama ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0000964 ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| knownFor | long-running role on The Young and the Restless ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Eric Braeden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German-American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Victor Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Colossus: The Forbin Project
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Escape from the Planet of the Apes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rat Patrol NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young and the Restless NERFINISHED ⓘ Titanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bredenbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
German military officers in various roles
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John Jacob Astor IV in Titanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Dale Russell Gudegast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeriesRegular | The Young and the Restless NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–present ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Eric Braeden Description of subject: Eric Braeden is a German-born American actor best known for his long-running role as Victor Newman on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.