Konopka
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Konopka is the original surname of American actor and comedian Ted Knight, best known for his role as the bumbling news anchor Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392043 — 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: Konopka Context triple: [Ted Knight, familyName, Konopka]
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A.
Chopok
Chopok is a prominent mountain peak in central Slovakia’s Low Tatras range, popular for hiking, skiing, and panoramic alpine views.
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B.
Kozik
Kozik is a member of the fictional outlaw motorcycle club featured in the TV series "Sons of Anarchy."
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C.
Mały Kack
Mały Kack is a district of the Polish city of Gdynia, located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship on the Baltic coast.
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D.
Kockasti
Kockasti is the popular nickname of the Croatia men's national basketball team, referencing the iconic red-and-white checkered pattern associated with Croatian sports.
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E.
Zgonik
Zgonik is the Slovene name for Sgonico, a small municipality in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy near the border with Slovenia.
- 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: Konopka Target entity description: Konopka is the original surname of American actor and comedian Ted Knight, best known for his role as the bumbling news anchor Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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A.
Chopok
Chopok is a prominent mountain peak in central Slovakia’s Low Tatras range, popular for hiking, skiing, and panoramic alpine views.
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B.
Kozik
Kozik is a member of the fictional outlaw motorcycle club featured in the TV series "Sons of Anarchy."
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C.
Mały Kack
Mały Kack is a district of the Polish city of Gdynia, located in the Pomeranian Voivodeship on the Baltic coast.
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D.
Kockasti
Kockasti is the popular nickname of the Croatia men's national basketball team, referencing the iconic red-and-white checkered pattern associated with Croatian sports.
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E.
Zgonik
Zgonik is the Slovene name for Sgonico, a small municipality in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy near the border with Slovenia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka ⓘ |
| category | Polish-language surnames ⓘ |
| derivedFromWord | Polish "konopie" (hemp) ⓘ |
| etymologicalType |
nickname surname
ⓘ
occupational surname ⓘ |
| familyNameAtBirth | Konopka ⓘ |
| frequency | uncommon surname globally ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | gender-neutral ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Ted Knight ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Konopke
ⓘ
linked to:
Konopka
Konopko ⓘ
linked to:
Konopka
|
| languageOfOrigin | Polish ⓘ |
| nameType | patrilineal surname ⓘ |
| originalSurnameOf | Ted Knight ⓘ |
| regionOfPrevalence |
Central Europe
ⓘ
North America ⓘ |
| usedAsSurnameBy | Ted Knight ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Brazil
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Germany ⓘ Poland ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Konopka Description of subject: Konopka is the original surname of American actor and comedian Ted Knight, best known for his role as the bumbling news anchor Ted Baxter on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.