Dan Fogler
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Dan Fogler is an American actor and comedian best known for roles in films like "Fantastic Beasts" and "Balls of Fury" as well as his work on stage and in voice acting.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan Fogler canonical | 6 |
| Dan Fogler (original Broadway production) | 1 |
| Dan Fogler won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for playing William Barfée | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5359040 — 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: Dan Fogler Context triple: [Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, castMember, Dan Fogler]
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A.
Zach Woods
Zach Woods is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "The Office," "Silicon Valley," and "Avenue 5."
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B.
Mitch Robbins
Mitch Robbins is the neurotic, middle-aged New Yorker who embarks on a life-changing cattle drive in the comedy film "City Slickers."
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C.
Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his roles in films such as Superbad, Moneyball, and The Wolf of Wall Street.
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D.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as Inception, 500 Days of Summer, and Looper, as well as for founding the online production company HitRecord.
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E.
Aaron Scheinfeld
Aaron Scheinfeld was a co-founder of ManpowerGroup, a major global staffing and workforce solutions company.
- 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: Dan Fogler Target entity description: Dan Fogler is an American actor and comedian best known for roles in films like "Fantastic Beasts" and "Balls of Fury" as well as his work on stage and in voice acting.
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A.
Zach Woods
Zach Woods is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "The Office," "Silicon Valley," and "Avenue 5."
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B.
Mitch Robbins
Mitch Robbins is the neurotic, middle-aged New Yorker who embarks on a life-changing cattle drive in the comedy film "City Slickers."
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C.
Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his roles in films such as Superbad, Moneyball, and The Wolf of Wall Street.
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D.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as Inception, 500 Days of Summer, and Looper, as well as for founding the online production company HitRecord.
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E.
Aaron Scheinfeld
Aaron Scheinfeld was a co-founder of ManpowerGroup, a major global staffing and workforce solutions company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
NERFINISHED
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Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Daniel Kevin Fogler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-10-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston University
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Poly Prep Country Day School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Fogler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | daughter (name not widely publicized) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Dan Fogler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Jacob Kowalski
NERFINISHED
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Kung Fu Panda character Zeng (voice) NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Daytona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Balls of Fury
NERFINISHED
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Barely Lethal NERFINISHED ⓘ Brooklyn Gladiator NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Peyote NERFINISHED ⓘ Europa Report NERFINISHED ⓘ Fanboys NERFINISHED ⓘ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them NERFINISHED ⓘ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald NERFINISHED ⓘ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore NERFINISHED ⓘ Good Luck Chuck NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannibal NERFINISHED ⓘ Horton Hears a Who! NERFINISHED ⓘ Kung Fu Panda NERFINISHED ⓘ Kung Fu Panda 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Happens NERFINISHED ⓘ Man Up NERFINISHED ⓘ Mars Needs Moms NERFINISHED ⓘ Moon Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Scenic Route NERFINISHED ⓘ Secrets and Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ Take Me Home Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee NERFINISHED ⓘ The Goldbergs NERFINISHED ⓘ The Walking Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| spouse | Jodie Capes Fogler 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: Dan Fogler Description of subject: Dan Fogler is an American actor and comedian best known for roles in films like "Fantastic Beasts" and "Balls of Fury" as well as his work on stage and in voice acting.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dan Fogler (original Broadway production)
this entity surface form:
Dan Fogler won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for playing William Barfée