Ted Bessell
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Ted Bessell was an American television and film actor best known for co-starring as Donald Hollinger on the 1960s sitcom "That Girl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Bessell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7354378 — 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: Ted Bessell Context triple: [The Horizontal Lieutenant, castMember, Ted Bessell]
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A.
Tim Besse
Tim Besse is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the employee review and job-listing platform Glassdoor.
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B.
Michael Bradsell
Michael Bradsell is a British film editor known for his work on notable films including Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of "Henry V" (1989).
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C.
Michael Bradsell
Michael Bradsell is a British science fiction editor best known for his work on the magazine Jabberwocky.
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D.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
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E.
Kevin Dowd
Kevin Dowd is the brother of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
- 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: Ted Bessell Target entity description: Ted Bessell was an American television and film actor best known for co-starring as Donald Hollinger on the 1960s sitcom "That Girl."
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A.
Tim Besse
Tim Besse is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the employee review and job-listing platform Glassdoor.
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B.
Michael Bradsell
Michael Bradsell is a British film editor known for his work on notable films including Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of "Henry V" (1989).
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C.
Michael Bradsell
Michael Bradsell is a British science fiction editor best known for his work on the magazine Jabberwocky.
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D.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
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E.
Kevin Dowd
Kevin Dowd is the brother of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
director
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
NERFINISHED
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The Bill Dana Show NERFINISHED ⓘ Who’s Minding the Mint? NERFINISHED ⓘ Your Money or Your Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Theodore Tyler Bessell Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | aortic aneurysm ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Donald Hollinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarredWith | Marlo Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-03-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-10-06 ⓘ |
| directed |
episodes of Sibs
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episodes of The Jackie Thomas Show ⓘ episodes of The Jeff Foxworthy Show ⓘ episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgetown University
ⓘ
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bessell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | situation comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Theodore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of Donald Hollinger on That Girl ⓘ |
| name | Ted Bessell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | That Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| spouse | Lindsay Bessell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedUnder | Sanford Meisner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Carl Reiner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tracey Ullman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–1990s ⓘ |
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: Ted Bessell Description of subject: Ted Bessell was an American television and film actor best known for co-starring as Donald Hollinger on the 1960s sitcom "That Girl."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.