Ned Leeds
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Ned Leeds is Peter Parker’s best friend and comic-relief sidekick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, known for his enthusiastic support of Spider-Man and his humorous, nerdy personality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ned Leeds canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9763065 — 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: Ned Leeds Context triple: [Spider-Man: Far From Home, character, Ned Leeds]
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A.
Eric Leeds
Eric Leeds is an American saxophonist and composer best known for his long-time collaboration with Prince across projects like The New Power Generation and Madhouse.
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B.
Ned Ryerson
Ned Ryerson is the overly enthusiastic insurance salesman and former classmate who repeatedly accosts Phil Connors in the film "Groundhog Day."
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C.
Eric Leach
Eric Leach is a cinematographer best known for his work on the psychological thriller film "Enter Nowhere."
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Ron Torbert
Ron Torbert is an American NFL official who has served as a referee in multiple high-profile games, including Super Bowl LVI.
- 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: Ned Leeds Target entity description: Ned Leeds is Peter Parker’s best friend and comic-relief sidekick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, known for his enthusiastic support of Spider-Man and his humorous, nerdy personality.
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A.
Eric Leeds
Eric Leeds is an American saxophonist and composer best known for his long-time collaboration with Prince across projects like The New Power Generation and Madhouse.
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B.
Ned Ryerson
Ned Ryerson is the overly enthusiastic insurance salesman and former classmate who repeatedly accosts Phil Connors in the film "Groundhog Day."
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C.
Eric Leach
Eric Leach is a cinematographer best known for his work on the psychological thriller film "Enter Nowhere."
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Ron Torbert
Ron Torbert is an American NFL official who has served as a referee in multiple high-profile games, including Super Bowl LVI.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Marvel Cinematic Universe character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Peter Parker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spider-Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Marvel Cinematic Universe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spider-Man: Far From Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man: Homecoming NERFINISHED ⓘ Spider-Man: No Way Home NERFINISHED ⓘ The Daily Bugle (in-universe media, MCU) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Stark Industries technology ⓘ |
| attendsSchool | Midtown School of Science and Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ned Leeds (Marvel Comics) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| createdFor | Marvel Cinematic Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discoversSecretIdentityOf | Spider-Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educationLevel | high school graduate ⓘ |
| enrollsAt | MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Spider-Man: Homecoming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Spider-Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf |
Betty Brant (MCU)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MJ (Michelle Jones-Watson) NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Edward Leeds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | superhero film ⓘ |
| givenName | Ned NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairStyle | shaved head (later films) ⓘ |
| hasMagicPotential | yes (implied in Spider-Man: No Way Home) ⓘ |
| helps |
Peter Parker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spider-Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
enthusiastic support of Spider-Man
ⓘ
humorous personality ⓘ nerdy personality ⓘ |
| knowsSecretIdentityOf | Peter Parker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | live-action film character ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | Filipino American ⓘ |
| notableQuote | I’m looking at porn. (Spider-Man: Homecoming) ⓘ |
| occupation |
college student
ⓘ
high school student ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jacob Batalon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
comic relief
ⓘ
guy in the chair ⓘ sidekick ⓘ |
| romanticRelationshipWith | Betty Brant (MCU) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| universe | Earth-199999 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesObject | Doctor Strange’s sling ring (temporarily) ⓘ |
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: Ned Leeds Description of subject: Ned Leeds is Peter Parker’s best friend and comic-relief sidekick in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, known for his enthusiastic support of Spider-Man and his humorous, nerdy personality.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.