Spalding Gray
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Spalding Gray was an American actor and acclaimed monologist best known for his autobiographical stage works such as "Swimming to Cambodia."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spalding Gray canonical | 33 |
| Spalding Gray (as himself) | 1 |
| Spalding Gray monologue cycle | 1 |
| Spalding Gray’s body of monologue works | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3056218 — 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: Spalding Gray Context triple: [Beaches, starring, Spalding Gray]
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A.
George Carlin
George Carlin was an influential American stand-up comedian, social critic, and author known for his sharp wit, boundary-pushing routines, and incisive commentary on language, politics, and culture.
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B.
Garry Shandling
Garry Shandling was an influential American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for his groundbreaking meta-sitcoms "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Larry Sanders Show."
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C.
Mort Sahl
Mort Sahl was a pioneering American stand-up comedian known for his sharp, politically charged, conversational style that helped transform modern comedy.
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D.
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn is an American character actor, playwright, and essayist known for his distinctive voice and roles in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "My Dinner with Andre."
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E.
Joe Alaskey
Joe Alaskey was an American voice actor best known for succeeding Mel Blanc in voicing many classic Looney Tunes characters, including iconic roles like Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and others.
- 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: Spalding Gray Target entity description: Spalding Gray was an American actor and acclaimed monologist best known for his autobiographical stage works such as "Swimming to Cambodia."
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A.
George Carlin
George Carlin was an influential American stand-up comedian, social critic, and author known for his sharp wit, boundary-pushing routines, and incisive commentary on language, politics, and culture.
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B.
Garry Shandling
Garry Shandling was an influential American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for his groundbreaking meta-sitcoms "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Larry Sanders Show."
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C.
Mort Sahl
Mort Sahl was a pioneering American stand-up comedian known for his sharp, politically charged, conversational style that helped transform modern comedy.
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D.
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn is an American character actor, playwright, and essayist known for his distinctive voice and roles in films such as "The Princess Bride" and "My Dinner with Andre."
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E.
Joe Alaskey
Joe Alaskey was an American voice actor best known for succeeding Mel Blanc in voicing many classic Looney Tunes characters, including iconic roles like Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and others.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Spalding Gray Description of subject: Spalding Gray was an American actor and acclaimed monologist best known for his autobiographical stage works such as "Swimming to Cambodia."
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
True Stories (film)
linked to: Spalding Gray
subject linked to:
King of the Hill
linked to: Spalding Gray
subject linked to:
Gray's Anatomy
subject linked to:
Gray's Anatomy
linked to: Spalding Gray
subject linked to:
film "Beaches" (1988)