Rick Schroder
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Rick Schroder is an American actor best known as a former child star of the sitcom "Silver Spoons" who later took on more mature roles in film and television dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rick Schroder canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5589246 — 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: Rick Schroder Context triple: [NYPD Blue, starredActor, Rick Schroder]
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A.
Ron Glass
Ron Glass was an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Ron Harris on the sitcom "Barney Miller" and Shepherd Book on the science fiction series "Firefly."
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B.
Ray Wise
Ray Wise is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in film and television, including memorable performances in "Twin Peaks," "RoboCop," and numerous other genre and dramatic works.
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C.
Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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D.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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E.
Benjamin Dreyfuss
Benjamin Dreyfuss is an American journalist and actor, known both for his work in media and as the son of Academy Award–winning actor Richard Dreyfuss.
- 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: Rick Schroder Target entity description: Rick Schroder is an American actor best known as a former child star of the sitcom "Silver Spoons" who later took on more mature roles in film and television dramas.
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A.
Ron Glass
Ron Glass was an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Ron Harris on the sitcom "Barney Miller" and Shepherd Book on the science fiction series "Firefly."
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B.
Ray Wise
Ray Wise is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in film and television, including memorable performances in "Twin Peaks," "RoboCop," and numerous other genre and dramatic works.
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C.
Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of the strict prison warden Samuel Norton in the film "The Shawshank Redemption."
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D.
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn is an American actor known for his intense, rugged performances in films such as "The Right Stuff," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Backdraft."
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E.
Benjamin Dreyfuss
Benjamin Dreyfuss is an American journalist and actor, known both for his work in media and as the son of Academy Award–winning actor Richard Dreyfuss.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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child actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | The Champ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard Bartlett Schroder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1970-04-13 ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Black Cloud
NERFINISHED
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Locker 13 ⓘ |
| familyName | Schroder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| film |
Black Cloud
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crimson Tide NERFINISHED ⓘ Poolhall Junkies NERFINISHED ⓘ The Champ NERFINISHED ⓘ The Earthling NERFINISHED ⓘ There Goes the Bride NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Rick Schroder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Detective Danny Sorenson on NYPD Blue
NERFINISHED
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Ricky Stratton on Silver Spoons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lonesome Dove
NERFINISHED
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NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Spoons NERFINISHED ⓘ The Champ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| spouse | Andrea Bernard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeries |
24
NERFINISHED
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Dolly NERFINISHED ⓘ NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Scrubs NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Spoons NERFINISHED ⓘ Strong Medicine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rick Schroder Description of subject: Rick Schroder is an American actor best known as a former child star of the sitcom "Silver Spoons" who later took on more mature roles in film and television dramas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.