Ed Lauter
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Ed Lauter was an American character actor known for his distinctive bald-headed look and prolific supporting roles in films and television from the 1970s onward.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ed Lauter canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8810694 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Lauter Context triple: [The Longest Yard, starring, Ed Lauter]
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A.
Glenn Fleshler
Glenn Fleshler is an American character actor known for his intense and often menacing roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "True Detective," "Billions," and "Joker."
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B.
Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
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C.
Bob Tzudiker
Bob Tzudiker is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Disney animated films such as "Tarzan" and "The Lion King."
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D.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
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E.
Kenneth Biller
Kenneth Biller is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "Star Trek: Voyager" and the anthology drama "Genius."
- 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: Ed Lauter Target entity description: Ed Lauter was an American character actor known for his distinctive bald-headed look and prolific supporting roles in films and television from the 1970s onward.
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A.
Glenn Fleshler
Glenn Fleshler is an American character actor known for his intense and often menacing roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "True Detective," "Billions," and "Joker."
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B.
Hal Bidlack
Hal Bidlack is an American political science professor, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and public speaker known for his work in skepticism and secular humanism.
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C.
Bob Tzudiker
Bob Tzudiker is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing Disney animated films such as "Tarzan" and "The Lion King."
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D.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
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E.
Kenneth Biller
Kenneth Biller is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "Star Trek: Voyager" and the anthology drama "Genius."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Born on the Fourth of July
NERFINISHED
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Charlie's Angels (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Cujo NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Wish 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ ER (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Family Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ Leaving Las Vegas NERFINISHED ⓘ Magnum, P.I. NERFINISHED ⓘ Murder, She Wrote NERFINISHED ⓘ NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Seabiscuit (2003 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The A-Team (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Artist (2011 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Longest Yard (1974 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Mike Hammer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocketeer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Waltons NERFINISHED ⓘ The X-Files (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Edward Matthew Lauter Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | mesothelioma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-10-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-10-16 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German American ⓘ |
| familyName | Lauter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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crime film ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ed Lauter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | distinctive bald-headed look ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Artist (2011 film)
NERFINISHED
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The Longest Yard (1974 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Long Beach, New York, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–2010s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ed Lauter Description of subject: Ed Lauter was an American character actor known for his distinctive bald-headed look and prolific supporting roles in films and television from the 1970s onward.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.