Paul Adelstein
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Paul Adelstein is an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Cooper Freedman on the television medical drama "Private Practice."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Adelstein canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7747165 — 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: Paul Adelstein Context triple: [Private Practice, starring, Paul Adelstein]
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A.
Joseph Markovitch
Joseph Markovitch was the father of French photographer and painter Dora Maar, a key figure in the Surrealist movement and companion of Pablo Picasso.
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B.
Ronald N. Perlman
Ronald N. Perlman is an American actor best known for his distinctive deep voice and leading roles in works such as the "Hellboy" films and the television series "Beauty and the Beast."
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C.
Barry Schindel
Barry Schindel is a television producer and writer known for his work on crime and drama series, including serving as an executive producer on the show "Castle."
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D.
Paul Margulies
Paul Margulies was an American advertising executive and writer, best known as the father of actress Julianna Margulies.
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E.
Sam Denoff
Sam Denoff was an American television writer and producer best known for his influential work on classic sitcoms such as "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "That Girl."
- 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: Paul Adelstein Target entity description: Paul Adelstein is an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Cooper Freedman on the television medical drama "Private Practice."
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A.
Joseph Markovitch
Joseph Markovitch was the father of French photographer and painter Dora Maar, a key figure in the Surrealist movement and companion of Pablo Picasso.
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B.
Ronald N. Perlman
Ronald N. Perlman is an American actor best known for his distinctive deep voice and leading roles in works such as the "Hellboy" films and the television series "Beauty and the Beast."
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C.
Barry Schindel
Barry Schindel is a television producer and writer known for his work on crime and drama series, including serving as an executive producer on the show "Castle."
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D.
Paul Margulies
Paul Margulies was an American advertising executive and writer, best known as the father of actress Julianna Margulies.
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E.
Sam Denoff
Sam Denoff was an American television writer and producer best known for his influential work on classic sitcoms such as "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "That Girl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Be Cool
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bedazzled NERFINISHED ⓘ Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce NERFINISHED ⓘ Hack NERFINISHED ⓘ I Feel Bad NERFINISHED ⓘ Intolerable Cruelty NERFINISHED ⓘ Memoirs of a Geisha NERFINISHED ⓘ Prison Break NERFINISHED ⓘ Private Practice NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Missing Person NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Dr. Cooper Freedman
NERFINISHED
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Jake Novak NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo Bergen NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Kellerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-04-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Bowdoin College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Adelstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Dr. Cooper Freedman on Private Practice ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 2017 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 2006 ⓘ |
| memberOf | Theatre company Steppenwolf Theatre Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Paul Adelstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Feel Bad NERFINISHED ⓘ Prison Break NERFINISHED ⓘ Private Practice NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Liza Weil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paul Adelstein Description of subject: Paul Adelstein is an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Cooper Freedman on the television medical drama "Private Practice."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.