Ted Danson
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Ted Danson is an American actor best known for his iconic role as bartender Sam Malone on the television sitcom "Cheers" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Danson canonical | 31 |
| Ted Danson as Jack Holden | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T542469 — 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: Ted Danson Context triple: [Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, notableWinner, Ted Danson]
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A.
Carroll O’Connor
Carroll O’Connor was an American actor best known for his iconic portrayal of Archie Bunker on the groundbreaking television sitcom "All in the Family."
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B.
Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer is an American actor best known for his long-running, Emmy-winning portrayal of Dr. Frasier Crane on the sitcoms "Cheers" and "Frasier."
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C.
John Ritter
John Ritter was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Jack Tripper on the hit sitcom "Three's Company."
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D.
Blake Perlman
Blake Perlman is an American actress and singer known for roles in film and television, including appearances in projects associated with her father, actor Ron Perlman.
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E.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" 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: Ted Danson Target entity description: Ted Danson is an American actor best known for his iconic role as bartender Sam Malone on the television sitcom "Cheers" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
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A.
Carroll O’Connor
Carroll O’Connor was an American actor best known for his iconic portrayal of Archie Bunker on the groundbreaking television sitcom "All in the Family."
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B.
Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer is an American actor best known for his long-running, Emmy-winning portrayal of Dr. Frasier Crane on the sitcoms "Cheers" and "Frasier."
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C.
John Ritter
John Ritter was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Jack Tripper on the hit sitcom "Three's Company."
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D.
Blake Perlman
Blake Perlman is an American actress and singer known for roles in film and television, including appearances in projects associated with her father, actor Ron Perlman.
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E.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Ted Danson Description of subject: Ted Danson is an American actor best known for his iconic role as bartender Sam Malone on the television sitcom "Cheers" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ted Danson as Jack Holden
subject surface form:
Michael (The Good Place)