Scott Newman
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Scott Newman was an American actor and the son of legendary film star Paul Newman, whose promising career was cut short by his early death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Newman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8103469 — 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: Scott Newman Context triple: [Paul Newman, parentOf, Scott Newman]
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A.
Chris Newman
Chris Newman is an Internet standards engineer and author known for his contributions to email and messaging protocols within the IETF.
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B.
Joe Newman
Joe Newman was an American jazz trumpeter best known for his work with big bands, particularly the Count Basie Orchestra.
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C.
Bobby Newmyer
Bobby Newmyer was an American film producer known for backing gritty, character-driven movies in Hollywood, including the crime thriller "Training Day."
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D.
Brian Routh
Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
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E.
Ron Newman
Ron Newman was an English-American soccer coach renowned for his pioneering success in U.S. professional soccer, particularly in the NASL and indoor leagues.
- 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: Scott Newman Target entity description: Scott Newman was an American actor and the son of legendary film star Paul Newman, whose promising career was cut short by his early death.
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A.
Chris Newman
Chris Newman is an Internet standards engineer and author known for his contributions to email and messaging protocols within the IETF.
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B.
Joe Newman
Joe Newman was an American jazz trumpeter best known for his work with big bands, particularly the Count Basie Orchestra.
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C.
Bobby Newmyer
Bobby Newmyer was an American film producer known for backing gritty, character-driven movies in Hollywood, including the crime thriller "Training Day."
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D.
Brian Routh
Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
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E.
Ron Newman
Ron Newman was an English-American soccer coach renowned for his pioneering success in U.S. professional soccer, particularly in the NASL and indoor leagues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drug overdose ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-09-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1978-11-20 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Jewish and Slovak descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Newman ⓘ |
| father | Paul Newman ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Scott ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Claire Newman
ⓘ
Melissa Newman ⓘ Nell Newman ⓘ Stephanie Newman ⓘ Susan Kendall Newman ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother |
Jackie Witte
ⓘ
linked to:
Jacqueline Witte
|
| name | Scott Newman ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the son of actor Paul Newman ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fraternity Row
ⓘ
The Great Waldo Pepper ⓘ The Towering Inferno ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cleveland, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| relative |
Claire Newman
ⓘ
Melissa Newman ⓘ Nell Newman ⓘ Stephanie Newman ⓘ Susan Kendall Newman ⓘ |
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: Scott Newman Description of subject: Scott Newman was an American actor and the son of legendary film star Paul Newman, whose promising career was cut short by his early death.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.