Barry Bostwick
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Barry Bostwick is an American actor best known for his roles in the cult musical film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the sitcom "Spin City."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barry Bostwick canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7849192 — 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: Barry Bostwick Context triple: [Spin City, starring, Barry Bostwick]
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A.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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B.
Barry Taylor
Barry Taylor is a mild-mannered, socially awkward electrician from Wolverhampton and one of the central British workmen in the comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet."
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C.
John McIntire
John McIntire was an American character actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in Western films and television, as well as voice work in classic Disney animated features.
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D.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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E.
Fred Burns
Fred Burns was an American actor known for his roles in early silent-era Westerns and adventure films.
- 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: Barry Bostwick Target entity description: Barry Bostwick is an American actor best known for his roles in the cult musical film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the sitcom "Spin City."
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A.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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B.
Barry Taylor
Barry Taylor is a mild-mannered, socially awkward electrician from Wolverhampton and one of the central British workmen in the comedy-drama series "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet."
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C.
John McIntire
John McIntire was an American character actor known for his distinctive deep voice and roles in Western films and television, as well as voice work in classic Disney animated features.
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D.
John Gibbon
John Gibbon was a 19th-century United States Army officer and Civil War general who later played a key role in the Indian Wars, including campaigns against the Nez Perce.
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E.
Fred Burns
Fred Burns was an American actor known for his roles in early silent-era Westerns and adventure films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Grease (stage musical)
NERFINISHED
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Spin City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocky Horror Picture Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-02-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
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San Diego State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Bostwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | performing arts ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAssociated |
musical film
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sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Barry Bostwick
NERFINISHED
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Barry Bostwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Brian Bostwick
NERFINISHED
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Chelsea Bostwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0000960 ⓘ |
| hasVoiceRoleIn | animated television series ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Barry Bostwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Golden Globe Award
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Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cougar Town
NERFINISHED
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Glee NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Megaforce NERFINISHED ⓘ Phineas and Ferb NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ Spin City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Robber Bridegroom NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocky Horror Picture Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | stage musical Grease NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Mateo, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Brad Majors
NERFINISHED
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Danny Zuko NERFINISHED ⓘ Randall Winston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Maggie Bostwick
NERFINISHED
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Sherri Jensen NERFINISHED ⓘ Stacey Nelkin 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: Barry Bostwick Description of subject: Barry Bostwick is an American actor best known for his roles in the cult musical film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the sitcom "Spin City."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.