Rickey Smiley
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Rickey Smiley is an American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor known for his prank phone calls and roles in comedy films and television.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ricky Smiley | 2 |
| Rickey Smiley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9972842 — 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: Rickey Smiley Context triple: [First Sunday, starring, Rickey Smiley]
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A.
Carl Pickens
Carl Pickens is a former American football wide receiver best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1990s.
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B.
Jeff Foxworthy
Jeff Foxworthy is an American stand-up comedian and television personality best known for his "You might be a redneck" jokes and his work as a prominent member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
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C.
Kenny Wayne Brobst
Kenny Wayne Brobst, better known as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, is an American blues-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter renowned for his virtuosic playing and modern electric blues sound.
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D.
Howard Cannon
Howard Cannon is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as one of the founders of the pioneering artificial intelligence company Symbolics.
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E.
Dee Jay Mathis
Dee Jay Mathis is an American woman best known for being the first wife of actor James Caan.
- 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: Rickey Smiley Target entity description: Rickey Smiley is an American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor known for his prank phone calls and roles in comedy films and television.
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A.
Carl Pickens
Carl Pickens is a former American football wide receiver best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1990s.
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B.
Jeff Foxworthy
Jeff Foxworthy is an American stand-up comedian and television personality best known for his "You might be a redneck" jokes and his work as a prominent member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour.
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C.
Kenny Wayne Brobst
Kenny Wayne Brobst, better known as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, is an American blues-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter renowned for his virtuosic playing and modern electric blues sound.
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D.
Howard Cannon
Howard Cannon is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as one of the founders of the pioneering artificial intelligence company Symbolics.
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E.
Dee Jay Mathis
Dee Jay Mathis is an American woman best known for being the first wife of actor James Caan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
stand-up comedian ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1968-08-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Birmingham, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Alabama State University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tuskegee University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Smiley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Broderick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Brandon Smiley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSocialMediaPresence |
Facebook
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Instagram ⓘ Twitter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.rickeysmiley.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
character-based comedy
ⓘ
family-oriented humor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
radio
ⓘ
stand-up comedy ⓘ television ⓘ |
| name | Rickey Smiley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
morning radio show
ⓘ
prank phone calls ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ComicView
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Def Comedy Jam NERFINISHED ⓘ Dish Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ Friday After Next NERFINISHED ⓘ Rickey Smiley For Real NERFINISHED ⓘ Showtime at the Apollo NERFINISHED ⓘ Stand-up comedy specials ⓘ The Rickey Smiley Morning Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
radio host ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Santa Claus in Friday After Next NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Birmingham, Alabama, United States 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: Rickey Smiley Description of subject: Rickey Smiley is an American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor known for his prank phone calls and roles in comedy films and television.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ricky Smiley
this entity surface form:
Ricky Smiley