Jeff Tarpley
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Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeff Tarpley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6369667 — 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: Jeff Tarpley Context triple: [Sherri Shepherd, spouse, Jeff Tarpley]
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A.
John J. Tominac
John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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B.
Bill O'Herlihy
Bill O'Herlihy was a prominent Irish sports broadcaster and television presenter best known for his long career covering major football tournaments for RTÉ.
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C.
Tom O’Brien
Tom O’Brien is an American football coach best known for revitalizing Boston College’s football program in the late 1990s and early 2000s before later leading NC State.
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D.
Richard M. Linnehan
Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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E.
James Nourse
James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
- 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: Jeff Tarpley Target entity description: Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
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A.
John J. Tominac
John J. Tominac was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognized for extraordinary heroism during World War II.
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B.
Bill O'Herlihy
Bill O'Herlihy was a prominent Irish sports broadcaster and television presenter best known for his long career covering major football tournaments for RTÉ.
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C.
Tom O’Brien
Tom O’Brien is an American football coach best known for revitalizing Boston College’s football program in the late 1990s and early 2000s before later leading NC State.
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D.
Richard M. Linnehan
Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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E.
James Nourse
James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| child | Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Sherri Shepherd ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Sherri Shepherd ⓘ |
| notableWork | television acting roles ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sharesCustodyOf | Jeffrey Charles Tarpley Jr. ⓘ |
| spouse | Sherri Shepherd ⓘ |
| spouseEndTime | 2010 ⓘ |
| spouseStartTime | 2001 ⓘ |
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: Jeff Tarpley Description of subject: Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.