Ray Teal
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Ray Teal was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century film and television, including numerous Westerns and supporting roles in major Hollywood productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ray Teal canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4623090 — 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: Ray Teal Context triple: [Ace in the Hole, starring, Ray Teal]
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A.
George Swanson Starling
George Swanson Starling was a key African American migrant whose life story in the early and mid-20th century exemplifies the struggles and aspirations of the Great Migration chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s work.
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B.
Ernie the Eagle
Ernie the Eagle is the costumed eagle mascot representing Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University at its athletic events and campus activities.
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C.
Finch
Finch is a 2021 post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film starring Tom Hanks as a lone survivor who builds a robot to care for his dog.
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D.
Henery Hawk
Henery Hawk is a small, determined young chicken-hawk from the Looney Tunes cartoons, best known for his recurring attempts to capture chickens like Foghorn Leghorn.
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E.
Gladstone Gander
Gladstone Gander is a Disney comic character known as Donald Duck’s incredibly lucky cousin, whose effortless good fortune often contrasts with Donald’s perpetual bad luck.
- 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: Ray Teal Target entity description: Ray Teal was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century film and television, including numerous Westerns and supporting roles in major Hollywood productions.
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A.
George Swanson Starling
George Swanson Starling was a key African American migrant whose life story in the early and mid-20th century exemplifies the struggles and aspirations of the Great Migration chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s work.
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B.
Ernie the Eagle
Ernie the Eagle is the costumed eagle mascot representing Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University at its athletic events and campus activities.
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C.
Finch
Finch is a 2021 post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film starring Tom Hanks as a lone survivor who builds a robot to care for his dog.
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D.
Henery Hawk
Henery Hawk is a small, determined young chicken-hawk from the Looney Tunes cartoons, best known for his recurring attempts to capture chickens like Foghorn Leghorn.
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E.
Gladstone Gander
Gladstone Gander is a Disney comic character known as Donald Duck’s incredibly lucky cousin, whose effortless good fortune often contrasts with Donald’s perpetual bad luck.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Teal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| givenName | Ray ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ray Teal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
prolific work in mid-20th-century film
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prolific work in mid-20th-century television ⓘ supporting roles in major Hollywood productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bonanza
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Western films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
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American television history ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| typeOfRole |
character roles
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supporting roles ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Ray Teal Description of subject: Ray Teal was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in mid-20th-century film and television, including numerous Westerns and supporting roles in major Hollywood productions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.