Ted Wass
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Ted Wass is an American actor and television director best known for his role on the sitcom "Soap" and for directing numerous popular TV series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Wass canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13012132 — 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: Ted Wass Context triple: [Janet Margolin, spouse, Ted Wass]
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A.
David Cummings
David Cummings is a British comedy writer best known for co-writing the film "Kevin & Perry Go Large" and his work on various UK television comedies.
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B.
Neil Hawke
Neil Hawke was an Australian sportsman best known as a fast-medium bowler for the national cricket team in the 1960s and also a talented Australian rules footballer.
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C.
Jason Shuman
Jason Shuman is a film and television producer known for his work on projects such as the sports drama series "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."
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D.
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer and percussionist best known for his work with Santana, including his iconic performance at Woodstock and contributions to their classic early albums.
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E.
Richard Neal
Richard Neal is a longtime Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts who has served as chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
- 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: Ted Wass Target entity description: Ted Wass is an American actor and television director best known for his role on the sitcom "Soap" and for directing numerous popular TV series.
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A.
David Cummings
David Cummings is a British comedy writer best known for co-writing the film "Kevin & Perry Go Large" and his work on various UK television comedies.
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B.
Neil Hawke
Neil Hawke was an Australian sportsman best known as a fast-medium bowler for the national cricket team in the 1960s and also a talented Australian rules footballer.
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C.
Jason Shuman
Jason Shuman is a film and television producer known for his work on projects such as the sports drama series "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."
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D.
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer and percussionist best known for his work with Santana, including his iconic performance at Woodstock and contributions to their classic early albums.
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E.
Richard Neal
Richard Neal is a longtime Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts who has served as chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Blossom
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Curse of the Pink Panther ⓘ Oh, God! You Devil ⓘ
linked to:
Oh, God!
Soap ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-10-27 ⓘ |
| directed |
2 Broke Girls
ⓘ
Blossom ⓘ Everybody Hates Chris ⓘ Less Than Perfect ⓘ Melissa & Joey ⓘ Rules of Engagement ⓘ Scrubs ⓘ Spin City ⓘ The Big Bang Theory ⓘ Two and a Half Men ⓘ Young Sheldon ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Carnegie Mellon University
ⓘ
linked to:
CMU
University of Tulsa ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing numerous American television sitcoms
ⓘ
role as Danny Dallas on Soap ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blossom
ⓘ
Soap ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
television director ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lakewood, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Danny Dallas ⓘ |
| series | Soap ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Janet Margolin
ⓘ
Nina Wass ⓘ |
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: Ted Wass Description of subject: Ted Wass is an American actor and television director best known for his role on the sitcom "Soap" and for directing numerous popular TV series.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.