Thomas B. Kin Chong
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Thomas B. Kin Chong, better known as Tommy Chong, is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and musician famous for his cannabis-themed Cheech & Chong comedy duo and films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas B. Kin Chong canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9996786 — 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: Thomas B. Kin Chong Context triple: [Tommy Chong, birthName, Thomas B. Kin Chong]
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John M. Y. Lee
John M. Y. Lee is an American architect known for designing major civic and institutional buildings, including the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Charles C. Tan
Charles C. Tan was a notable benefactor and alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, for whom the university’s chemical engineering building, Tan Hall, is named.
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C.
Wittman Ah Sing
Wittman Ah Sing is the Chinese American, Beat-influenced aspiring writer and performance artist who serves as the central, self-mythologizing figure in Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel *Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book*.
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D.
Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee
Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee is a screenwriter known for his work in film and television, contributing to contemporary scripted storytelling.
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E.
Poy Gum Lee
Poy Gum Lee was a Chinese-American architect known for blending modernist design with traditional Chinese elements in prominent early 20th-century projects in China and the United States.
- 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: Thomas B. Kin Chong Target entity description: Thomas B. Kin Chong, better known as Tommy Chong, is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and musician famous for his cannabis-themed Cheech & Chong comedy duo and films.
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A.
John M. Y. Lee
John M. Y. Lee is an American architect known for designing major civic and institutional buildings, including the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Charles C. Tan
Charles C. Tan was a notable benefactor and alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, for whom the university’s chemical engineering building, Tan Hall, is named.
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C.
Wittman Ah Sing
Wittman Ah Sing is the Chinese American, Beat-influenced aspiring writer and performance artist who serves as the central, self-mythologizing figure in Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel *Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book*.
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D.
Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee
Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee is a screenwriter known for his work in film and television, contributing to contemporary scripted storytelling.
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E.
Poy Gum Lee
Poy Gum Lee was a Chinese-American architect known for blending modernist design with traditional Chinese elements in prominent early 20th-century projects in China and the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cannabis rights activist
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comedian ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activismFocus | cannabis legalization ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-05-24 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Chinese Canadian
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Scots-Irish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
stand-up comedy
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stoner comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Gilbran Chong
NERFINISHED
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Marcus Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ Precious Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ Rae Dawn Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ Robbi Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cheech & Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Thomas B. Kin Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Leo on That '70s Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cheech & Chong
NERFINISHED
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Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ Cheech and Chong's Next Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ Nice Dreams NERFINISHED ⓘ Still Smokin NERFINISHED ⓘ That '70s Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Marijuana-Logues NERFINISHED ⓘ Up in Smoke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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cannabis activist ⓘ comedian ⓘ film director ⓘ musician ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| partnerInDuoWith | Cheech Marin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse |
Maxine Sneed
NERFINISHED
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Shelby Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Tommy Chong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Cheech & Chong comedy albums
NERFINISHED
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Cheech & Chong films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Thomas B. Kin Chong Description of subject: Thomas B. Kin Chong, better known as Tommy Chong, is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and musician famous for his cannabis-themed Cheech & Chong comedy duo and films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.