Richard Lewis
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Richard Lewis was an American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his neurotic, self-deprecating style and his long-running role as Larry David’s friend on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Lewis canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4504934 — 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: Richard Lewis Context triple: [Curb Your Enthusiasm, notableCastMember, Richard Lewis]
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A.
Stephen Root
Stephen Root is an American character actor and voice actor known for his versatile roles in film, television, and animation, including work in projects like "Office Space," "King of the Hill," and "Barry."
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B.
Sam Fields
Sam Fields is known primarily as the husband of acclaimed American film editor Verna Fields.
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C.
Blake Perlman
Blake Perlman is an American actress and singer known for roles in film and television, including appearances in projects associated with her father, actor Ron Perlman.
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D.
Charles Matthau
Charles Matthau is an American film and television director and producer, and the son of actor Walter Matthau.
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E.
Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for co-creating and starring in the 1990s sitcom "Mad About You" and for roles in films such as "Aliens" and "Diner."
- 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: Richard Lewis Target entity description: Richard Lewis was an American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his neurotic, self-deprecating style and his long-running role as Larry David’s friend on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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A.
Stephen Root
Stephen Root is an American character actor and voice actor known for his versatile roles in film, television, and animation, including work in projects like "Office Space," "King of the Hill," and "Barry."
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B.
Sam Fields
Sam Fields is known primarily as the husband of acclaimed American film editor Verna Fields.
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C.
Blake Perlman
Blake Perlman is an American actress and singer known for roles in film and television, including appearances in projects associated with her father, actor Ron Perlman.
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D.
Charles Matthau
Charles Matthau is an American film and television director and producer, and the son of actor Walter Matthau.
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E.
Paul Reiser
Paul Reiser is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for co-creating and starring in the 1990s sitcom "Mad About You" and for roles in films such as "Aliens" and "Diner."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedInFilm |
Drunks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leaving Las Vegas NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Hood: Men in Tights NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wrong Guys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedInTVSeries |
Anything but Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Curb Your Enthusiasm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStar |
Jamie Lee Curtis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Larry David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-06-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2024-02-27 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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neurotic comedy ⓘ observational comedy ⓘ self-deprecating comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jonathan Winters
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lenny Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Pryor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dark, confessional stand-up
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neurotic stage persona ⓘ self-deprecating humor ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
stand-up comedy ⓘ television ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Marty Gold on Anything but Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Lewis on Curb Your Enthusiasm ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anything but Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Curb Your Enthusiasm NERFINISHED ⓘ Drunks NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Hood: Men in Tights NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wrong Guys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
stand-up comedian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| performedOn |
Late Night with David Letterman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Richard Lewis Description of subject: Richard Lewis was an American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his neurotic, self-deprecating style and his long-running role as Larry David’s friend on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.