Richard Bull
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Richard Bull was an American character actor best known for his role as the kindly shopkeeper Nels Oleson on the television series "Little House on the Prairie."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Bull canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5228833 — 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: Richard Bull Context triple: [Little House on the Prairie, starring, Richard Bull]
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A.
Max Drummey
Max Drummey is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the indie pop band Chester French.
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B.
Frank Vosper
Frank Vosper was a British actor and playwright active in the early 20th century, known for his stage work and appearances in classic British films.
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C.
Karl Brazil
Karl Brazil is a British session drummer best known for his work with artists such as James Blunt and for his dynamic, groove-oriented playing style.
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D.
Jackson Lamb
Jackson Lamb is the slovenly, sharp-tongued but brilliant MI5 spymaster who leads the disgraced agents of Slough House in Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series.
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E.
Leo Falcam
Leo Falcam was a Micronesian politician who served as the fifth President of the Federated States of Micronesia from 1999 to 2003.
- 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: Richard Bull Target entity description: Richard Bull was an American character actor best known for his role as the kindly shopkeeper Nels Oleson on the television series "Little House on the Prairie."
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A.
Max Drummey
Max Drummey is an American musician best known as the guitarist and co-founder of the indie pop band Chester French.
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B.
Frank Vosper
Frank Vosper was a British actor and playwright active in the early 20th century, known for his stage work and appearances in classic British films.
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C.
Karl Brazil
Karl Brazil is a British session drummer best known for his work with artists such as James Blunt and for his dynamic, groove-oriented playing style.
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D.
Jackson Lamb
Jackson Lamb is the slovenly, sharp-tongued but brilliant MI5 spymaster who leads the disgraced agents of Slough House in Mick Herron’s Slow Horses series.
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E.
Leo Falcam
Leo Falcam was a Micronesian politician who served as the fifth President of the Federated States of Micronesia from 1999 to 2003.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Bonanza
NERFINISHED
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Executive Action NERFINISHED ⓘ High Plains Drifter NERFINISHED ⓘ Little House on the Prairie NERFINISHED ⓘ Mannix NERFINISHED ⓘ Mission: Impossible NERFINISHED ⓘ Peyton Place NERFINISHED ⓘ The Andromeda Strain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| characterRole | Nels Oleson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1924-06-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2014-02-03 ⓘ |
| employer | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bull NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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television ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying kindly shopkeeper Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie ⓘ |
| notableWork | Little House on the Prairie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Zion, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Calabasas, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Barbara Collentine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Karen Grassle
NERFINISHED
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Melissa Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Landon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Richard Bull Description of subject: Richard Bull was an American character actor best known for his role as the kindly shopkeeper Nels Oleson on the television series "Little House on the Prairie."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.