Daniel Tosh
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Daniel Tosh is an American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor best known for his dark, edgy humor and hosting the Comedy Central series "Tosh.0."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Daniel Tosh canonical | 4 |
| Daniel Tosh (as himself) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13109363 — 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: Daniel Tosh Context triple: [Brickleberry, executiveProducer, Daniel Tosh]
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A.
Bill Engvall
Bill Engvall is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and for his signature "Here's Your Sign" routine.
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B.
Dane Cook
Dane Cook is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his energetic, observational comedy and roles in films such as "Good Luck Chuck" and "Employee of the Month."
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C.
Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried was an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his shrill, distinctive voice and roles in films, television, and voiceover work, including voicing Iago in Disney’s Aladdin.
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D.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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E.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
- 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: Daniel Tosh Target entity description: Daniel Tosh is an American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor best known for his dark, edgy humor and hosting the Comedy Central series "Tosh.0."
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A.
Bill Engvall
Bill Engvall is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and for his signature "Here's Your Sign" routine.
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B.
Dane Cook
Dane Cook is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his energetic, observational comedy and roles in films such as "Good Luck Chuck" and "Employee of the Month."
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C.
Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried was an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his shrill, distinctive voice and roles in films, television, and voiceover work, including voicing Iago in Disney’s Aladdin.
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D.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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E.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television host ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Daniel Dwight Tosh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-05-29 ⓘ |
| degree | marketing ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Astronaut High School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Central Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Comedy Central NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
insult comedy ⓘ observational comedy ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | Titusville, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
one brother
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two sisters ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://danieltosh.com ⓘ |
| host | Daniel Tosh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Tosh.0
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
black comedy ⓘ dark humor ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 2016-04-15 ⓘ |
| name | Daniel Tosh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious
NERFINISHED
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Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts NERFINISHED ⓘ Daniel Tosh: People Pleaser NERFINISHED ⓘ Tosh.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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stand-up comedian ⓘ television presenter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Comedy Central NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedAt | Just for Laughs festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedOn |
Comedy Central Presents
NERFINISHED
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Jimmy Kimmel Live! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Late Show with David Letterman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tonight Show with Jay Leno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Boppard, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | raised Christian ⓘ |
| spouse | Carly Hallam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionShow | Tosh.0 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Daniel Tosh Description of subject: Daniel Tosh is an American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor best known for his dark, edgy humor and hosting the Comedy Central series "Tosh.0."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Daniel Tosh (as himself)