Jonathan Frid
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Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan Frid canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13472997 — 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: Jonathan Frid Context triple: [Dark Shadows (1966 TV series), leadActor, Jonathan Frid]
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Nick Talman
Nick Talman is the ambitious young tech entrepreneur protagonist of the television series "StartUp," who becomes entangled in the criminal underworld while trying to build a revolutionary digital currency company.
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B.
Jonathan Finn
Jonathan Finn is a British film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed 2000 drama film "Billy Elliot."
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Jonathan Resnick
Jonathan Resnick is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Resnick surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
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D.
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
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E.
Jon Richt
Jon Richt is an American football coach and former quarterback best known as the son of longtime college football coach Mark Richt.
- 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: Jonathan Frid Target entity description: Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows."
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A.
Nick Talman
Nick Talman is the ambitious young tech entrepreneur protagonist of the television series "StartUp," who becomes entangled in the criminal underworld while trying to build a revolutionary digital currency company.
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B.
Jonathan Finn
Jonathan Finn is a British film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed 2000 drama film "Billy Elliot."
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C.
Jonathan Resnick
Jonathan Resnick is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Resnick surname, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
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D.
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
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E.
Jon Richt
Jon Richt is an American football coach and former quarterback best known as the son of longtime college football coach Mark Richt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Jonathan Frid Description of subject: Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor best known for his iconic portrayal of the vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.