Wood Newton
E675914
Wood Newton is the central character of the sitcom "Evening Shade," a former professional football player who returns to his small Arkansas hometown to coach the high school team and reconnect with his community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wood Newton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7602710 — 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: Wood Newton Context triple: [Evening Shade, leadCharacter, Wood Newton]
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A.
Richard Woodley
Richard Woodley is an author best known for co-writing the true-crime book that inspired the film "Donnie Brasco."
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B.
Lewis Branscomb
Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
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C.
Hugo Redwood
Hugo Redwood is an American interior designer and LGBTQ+ rights advocate, best known as the husband of actor Denis O'Hare.
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D.
Henry Frye
Henry Frye is a pioneering American jurist who became the first African American chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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E.
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
- 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: Wood Newton Target entity description: Wood Newton is the central character of the sitcom "Evening Shade," a former professional football player who returns to his small Arkansas hometown to coach the high school team and reconnect with his community.
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A.
Richard Woodley
Richard Woodley is an author best known for co-writing the true-crime book that inspired the film "Donnie Brasco."
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B.
Lewis Branscomb
Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
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C.
Hugo Redwood
Hugo Redwood is an American interior designer and LGBTQ+ rights advocate, best known as the husband of actor Denis O'Hare.
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D.
Henry Frye
Henry Frye is a pioneering American jurist who became the first African American chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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E.
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Evening Shade ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
community-minded
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easygoing ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| child |
Molly Newton
ⓘ
Taylor Newton ⓘ Will Newton ⓘ |
| coachOf | Evening Shade High School football team ⓘ |
| fictionalHometown | Evening Shade, Arkansas ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Evening Shade season 1 episode 1
ⓘ
linked to:
Evening Shade
|
| formerOccupation | professional football player ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | CBS ⓘ |
| occupation | high school football coach ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Burt Reynolds ⓘ |
| relative |
Evan Evans
ⓘ
Ponder Blue ⓘ |
| residence | Evening Shade, Arkansas ⓘ |
| seriesGenre | sitcom ⓘ |
| seriesTitle | Evening Shade ⓘ |
| setting | small town Arkansas community ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
| spouse | Ava Evans Newton ⓘ |
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: Wood Newton Description of subject: Wood Newton is the central character of the sitcom "Evening Shade," a former professional football player who returns to his small Arkansas hometown to coach the high school team and reconnect with his community.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.