Tenney
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Tenney is a surname most notably associated with American actor Jon Tenney, known for his work in film and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tenney canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5699644 — 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: Tenney Context triple: [Jon Tenney, familyName, Tenney]
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A.
Tomlinson
Tomlinson is a surname most notably associated with Ray Tomlinson, the American computer programmer credited with inventing networked email and introducing the "@" symbol in email addresses.
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B.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Tibbetts
Tibbetts is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Tierney
Tierney is an Irish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 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: Tenney Target entity description: Tenney is a surname most notably associated with American actor Jon Tenney, known for his work in film and television.
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A.
Tomlinson
Tomlinson is a surname most notably associated with Ray Tomlinson, the American computer programmer credited with inventing networked email and introducing the "@" symbol in email addresses.
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B.
Dinneen
Dinneen is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals in sports, politics, and the arts.
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C.
Tibbetts
Tibbetts is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Tierney
Tierney is an Irish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals in fields such as sports, politics, and the arts.
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E.
McCauley
McCauley is the maiden surname of Rosa Parks, the prominent American civil rights activist known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ surname ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Jon Tenney ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Tenney ⓘ |
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: Tenney Description of subject: Tenney is a surname most notably associated with American actor Jon Tenney, known for his work in film and television.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.