Matt Hobby
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Matt Hobby is an American actor and comedian best known for playing Pastor Jeff Difford on the television series "Young Sheldon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matt Hobby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8268455 — 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: Matt Hobby Context triple: [Young Sheldon, stars, Matt Hobby]
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A.
Mark Holbrook
Mark Holbrook is a notable individual whose prominence has led to his recognition as a distinguished bearer of the Holbrook surname.
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B.
Matt Wolpert
Matt Wolpert is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the alternate-history space drama series "For All Mankind."
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C.
Ben Haggerty
Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper and songwriter recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
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D.
Matt Hulett
Matt Hulett is an American technology and business executive known for leading and scaling multiple software and digital media companies.
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E.
Sam Holbrook
Sam Holbrook is a Major League Baseball umpire known for officiating numerous high-profile games and postseason series.
- 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: Matt Hobby Target entity description: Matt Hobby is an American actor and comedian best known for playing Pastor Jeff Difford on the television series "Young Sheldon."
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A.
Mark Holbrook
Mark Holbrook is a notable individual whose prominence has led to his recognition as a distinguished bearer of the Holbrook surname.
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B.
Matt Wolpert
Matt Wolpert is a television writer and producer best known for co-creating the alternate-history space drama series "For All Mankind."
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C.
Ben Haggerty
Ben Haggerty, better known by his stage name Macklemore, is an American rapper and songwriter recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
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D.
Matt Hulett
Matt Hulett is an American technology and business executive known for leading and scaling multiple software and digital media companies.
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E.
Sam Holbrook
Sam Holbrook is a Major League Baseball umpire known for officiating numerous high-profile games and postseason series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| characterIn | Young Sheldon ⓘ |
| characterRole | Pastor Jeff Difford ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
stand-up comedy
ⓘ
television comedy ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| hasRelative | children ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Pastor Jeff Difford on Young Sheldon ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boardwalk Empire
ⓘ
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 ⓘ Fresh Off the Boat ⓘ Hart of Dixie ⓘ Mom ⓘ The Grinder ⓘ Young Sheldon ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Grill ⓘ |
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: Matt Hobby Description of subject: Matt Hobby is an American actor and comedian best known for playing Pastor Jeff Difford on the television series "Young Sheldon."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.