Stephen Tobolowsky
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Tobolowsky canonical | 25 |
| Stephen Harold Tobolowsky | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T460357 — 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: Stephen Tobolowsky Context triple: [The Insider, castMember, Stephen Tobolowsky]
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A.
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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B.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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C.
Rick Leary
Rick Leary is a Canadian public transit executive who serves as the chief executive officer of the Toronto Transit Commission, overseeing the city’s bus, streetcar, and subway operations.
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D.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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E.
Patrick Warburton
Patrick Warburton is an American actor known for his deep, distinctive voice and deadpan comedic roles in television and film, including series like "Seinfeld" and "The Tick" and voice work in "Family Guy" and "The Emperor's New Groove."
- 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: Stephen Tobolowsky Target entity description: 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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A.
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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B.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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C.
Rick Leary
Rick Leary is a Canadian public transit executive who serves as the chief executive officer of the Toronto Transit Commission, overseeing the city’s bus, streetcar, and subway operations.
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D.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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E.
Patrick Warburton
Patrick Warburton is an American actor known for his deep, distinctive voice and deadpan comedic roles in television and film, including series like "Seinfeld" and "The Tick" and voice work in "Family Guy" and "The Emperor's New Groove."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Stephen Tobolowsky Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Insider
this entity surface form:
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky
subject surface form:
True Stories
subject surface form:
Stephen Tobolowsky
subject surface form:
The Time Traveler's Wife (film)