Ed Williams
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Ed Williams is an American character actor best known for his deadpan role as lab technician Ted Olson in the parody TV series "Police Squad!" and the subsequent "Naked Gun" films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ed Williams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135440 — 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: Ed Williams Context triple: [Police Squad!, starring, Ed Williams]
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A.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is an American film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for his work on major Disney animated features such as Moana and Big Hero 6.
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B.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series such as "Californication" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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C.
Glen Williams
Glen Williams is a small historic village community located within the town of Halton Hills in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
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E.
Don Woods
Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
- 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: Ed Williams Target entity description: Ed Williams is an American character actor best known for his deadpan role as lab technician Ted Olson in the parody TV series "Police Squad!" and the subsequent "Naked Gun" films.
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A.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is an American film director, screenwriter, and animator best known for his work on major Disney animated features such as Moana and Big Hero 6.
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B.
Chris Williams
Chris Williams is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television series such as "Californication" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
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C.
Glen Williams
Glen Williams is a small historic village community located within the town of Halton Hills in Ontario, Canada.
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D.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
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E.
Don Woods
Don Woods is an American computer programmer best known for co-creating and expanding the pioneering text adventure game Colossal Cave Adventure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
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Police Squad! ⓘ The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear ⓘ The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ⓘ |
| characterRole | Ted Olson ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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comedy ⓘ comedy ⓘ comedy ⓘ parody ⓘ parody ⓘ parody ⓘ parody ⓘ |
| genreOfNotableWork |
comedy
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parody ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
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Police Squad! ⓘ The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear ⓘ The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ lab technician ⓘ |
| performanceStyle | deadpan ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Ed Williams Description of subject: Ed Williams is an American character actor best known for his deadpan role as lab technician Ted Olson in the parody TV series "Police Squad!" and the subsequent "Naked Gun" films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.