Jay R. Ferguson
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Jay R. Ferguson is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Evening Shade," "Mad Men," and "The Conners."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jay R. Ferguson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7602702 — 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: Jay R. Ferguson Context triple: [Evening Shade, starring, Jay R. Ferguson]
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A.
Brad W. Foster
Brad W. Foster is an American illustrator and cartoonist best known in science fiction and fantasy fandom for his intricate, humorous artwork and multiple Hugo Award–winning contributions as a fan artist.
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B.
James S. Voss
James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
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C.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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D.
Richard T. Wetherald
Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
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E.
Daniel L. Fapp
Daniel L. Fapp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning West Side Story.
- 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: Jay R. Ferguson Target entity description: Jay R. Ferguson is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Evening Shade," "Mad Men," and "The Conners."
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A.
Brad W. Foster
Brad W. Foster is an American illustrator and cartoonist best known in science fiction and fantasy fandom for his intricate, humorous artwork and multiple Hugo Award–winning contributions as a fan artist.
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B.
James S. Voss
James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
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C.
Allen M. Davey
Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
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D.
Richard T. Wetherald
Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
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E.
Daniel L. Fapp
Daniel L. Fapp was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning West Side Story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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television acting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Jay ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole | supporting roles in American television series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | television ⓘ |
| name | Jay R. Ferguson ⓘ |
| notableFor | television roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Easy Money
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Evening Shade ⓘ Judging Amy ⓘ Living Biblically ⓘ Mad Men ⓘ Sleeper Cell ⓘ Surface ⓘ The Conners ⓘ The Real O'Neals ⓘ Twin Peaks (2017) ⓘ
linked to:
Twin Peaks: The Return
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| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
television actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of Evening Shade
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cast of Mad Men ⓘ cast of The Conners ⓘ cast of The Real O'Neals ⓘ cast of Twin Peaks (2017) ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Ben in The Real O'Neals
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linked to:
The Real O'Neals
Darlene’s boss / Ben Olinsky in The Conners ⓘ Stan Rizzo in Mad Men ⓘ Taylor Newton in Evening Shade ⓘ
linked to:
Taylor Newton
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles (inferred, American television industry) ⓘ |
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: Jay R. Ferguson Description of subject: Jay R. Ferguson is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "Evening Shade," "Mad Men," and "The Conners."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.