Teddy Altman
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Teddy Altman is a cardiothoracic surgeon and recurring main character on the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy, known for her complex personal relationships and military background.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teddy Altman canonical | 3 |
| Dr. Altman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1545474 — 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: Teddy Altman Context triple: [Grey’s Anatomy, character, Teddy Altman]
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A.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
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B.
Chris Lebenzon
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor known for his long-time collaborations with directors like Tim Burton and Tony Scott on major Hollywood films.
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C.
Dr. Alfred Jones
Dr. Alfred Jones is a reserved British fisheries scientist whose unlikely involvement in a visionary project to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemeni desert drives the plot of the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
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D.
Doc Golightly
Doc Golightly is a character in Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's," known as the older Texan veterinarian who was once married to Holly Golightly and reveals her past.
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E.
Dr. Robinson
Dr. Robinson is a minor but pivotal character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," whose murder in the graveyard sets off a central mystery in the story.
- 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: Teddy Altman Target entity description: Teddy Altman is a cardiothoracic surgeon and recurring main character on the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy, known for her complex personal relationships and military background.
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A.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
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B.
Chris Lebenzon
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor known for his long-time collaborations with directors like Tim Burton and Tony Scott on major Hollywood films.
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C.
Dr. Alfred Jones
Dr. Alfred Jones is a reserved British fisheries scientist whose unlikely involvement in a visionary project to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemeni desert drives the plot of the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
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D.
Doc Golightly
Doc Golightly is a character in Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's," known as the older Texan veterinarian who was once married to Holly Golightly and reveals her past.
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E.
Dr. Robinson
Dr. Robinson is a minor but pivotal character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," whose murder in the graveyard sets off a central mystery in the story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Grey’s Anatomy
ⓘ
surface form:
Grey's Anatomy
|
| appearsInSeries |
Grey’s Anatomy
ⓘ
surface form:
Grey's Anatomy (TV series)
|
| createdBy | Shonda Rhimes ⓘ |
| employer |
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital
ⓘ
United States Army ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Army
|
| firstAppearanceIn |
Grey’s Anatomy
ⓘ
surface form:
Grey's Anatomy Season 6
|
| friendOf |
Arizona Robbins
ⓘ
Cristina Yang ⓘ Miranda Bailey ⓘ Owen Hunt ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | medical drama ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Teddy Altman
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dr. Altman
|
| hasChild |
Allison Hunt
ⓘ
Leo Hunt ⓘ |
| hasCloseFriend | Owen Hunt ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryBackground | true ⓘ |
| hasRank | Army doctor ⓘ |
| hasRomanticRelationshipWith |
Henry Burton
ⓘ
Owen Hunt ⓘ Tom Koracick ⓘ |
| hasStoryArc |
engagement and marriage complications with Owen Hunt
ⓘ
love triangle with Owen Hunt and Cristina Yang ⓘ marriage to Henry Burton ⓘ military service in Iraq ⓘ relationship with Tom Koracick ⓘ return to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital as attending ⓘ |
| introducedAs | attending cardiothoracic surgeon ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex personal relationships
ⓘ
expertise in cardiothoracic surgery ⓘ military background ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Owen Hunt ⓘ |
| mentorOf | Cristina Yang ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
cardiothoracic surgeon
ⓘ
surgeon ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kim Raver ⓘ |
| servedAs | military surgeon ⓘ |
| servedIn |
United States Army
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Army
|
| specialty | cardiothoracic surgery ⓘ |
| worksAt |
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital
ⓘ
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital ⓘ
surface form:
Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital
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| worksWith |
Jackson Avery
ⓘ
Meredith Grey ⓘ Richard Webber ⓘ |
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: Teddy Altman Description of subject: Teddy Altman is a cardiothoracic surgeon and recurring main character on the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy, known for her complex personal relationships and military background.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dr. Altman