Orson Bean
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Orson Bean was an American actor and comedian known for his prolific work in film, television, and theater, as well as his frequent appearances on game shows and talk shows.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Orson Bean canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5338885 — 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: Orson Bean Context triple: [Anatomy of a Murder, castMember, Orson Bean]
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A.
William Daniels
William Daniels was an American cinematographer and influential industry figure who helped shape the profession’s standards and advocacy through his role in founding the American Society of Cinematographers.
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B.
William Daniels
William Daniels is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Graduate," the TV series "St. Elsewhere," and as the voice of KITT in "Knight Rider."
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C.
James Whitmore
James Whitmore was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater, including a memorable role in *The Shawshank Redemption*.
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D.
Charles Coburn
Charles Coburn was an American character actor known for his distinguished, often avuncular screen presence in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, including an Academy Award-winning role in "The More the Merrier."
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E.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards was a prominent Canadian-American theatre director and educator best known for championing African-American playwrights, including directing the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s "Fences."
- 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: Orson Bean Target entity description: Orson Bean was an American actor and comedian known for his prolific work in film, television, and theater, as well as his frequent appearances on game shows and talk shows.
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A.
William Daniels
William Daniels was an American cinematographer and influential industry figure who helped shape the profession’s standards and advocacy through his role in founding the American Society of Cinematographers.
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B.
William Daniels
William Daniels is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Graduate," the TV series "St. Elsewhere," and as the voice of KITT in "Knight Rider."
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C.
James Whitmore
James Whitmore was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and acclaimed performances in film, television, and theater, including a memorable role in *The Shawshank Redemption*.
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D.
Charles Coburn
Charles Coburn was an American character actor known for his distinguished, often avuncular screen presence in classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s, including an Academy Award-winning role in "The More the Merrier."
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E.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards was a prominent Canadian-American theatre director and educator best known for championing African-American playwrights, including directing the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s "Fences."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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comedian ⓘ human ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2020 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| birthName | Dallas Frederick Burrows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | traffic collision ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-07-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-02-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Burrows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Dallas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Being John Malkovich
NERFINISHED
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Desperate Housewives NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Match Game NERFINISHED ⓘ The Equalizer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Zone (episode "Mr. Bevis") NERFINISHED ⓘ To Tell the Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ Two and a Half Men NERFINISHED ⓘ What’s My Line? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ producer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Burlington, Vermont, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalView | conservative ⓘ |
| relative | Andrew Breitbart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alley Mills
NERFINISHED
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Carolyn Maxwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacqueline de Sibour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Orson Bean 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: Orson Bean Description of subject: Orson Bean was an American actor and comedian known for his prolific work in film, television, and theater, as well as his frequent appearances on game shows and talk shows.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.