Larry Mathews
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Larry Mathews is an American former child actor best known for playing Ritchie Petrie, the son of Rob and Laura Petrie, on the classic 1960s sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Mathews canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10207070 — 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: Larry Mathews Context triple: [The Dick Van Dyke Show, stars, Larry Mathews]
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A.
Murray Warmath
Murray Warmath was an American college football coach best known for leading the University of Minnesota to a national championship in 1960.
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B.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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C.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is an American academic and administrator best known for serving as president of Florida A&M University.
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D.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is a Hall of Fame Canadian ice hockey defenseman best known for his long, successful career with the Montreal Canadiens and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
Duane Schuler
Duane Schuler is an American theatrical lighting designer known for his work in opera, including major productions at leading opera houses.
- 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: Larry Mathews Target entity description: Larry Mathews is an American former child actor best known for playing Ritchie Petrie, the son of Rob and Laura Petrie, on the classic 1960s sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
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A.
Murray Warmath
Murray Warmath was an American college football coach best known for leading the University of Minnesota to a national championship in 1960.
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B.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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C.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is an American academic and administrator best known for serving as president of Florida A&M University.
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D.
Larry Robinson
Larry Robinson is a Hall of Fame Canadian ice hockey defenseman best known for his long, successful career with the Montreal Canadiens and multiple Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
Duane Schuler
Duane Schuler is an American theatrical lighting designer known for his work in opera, including major productions at leading opera houses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
former child actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appearanceType | television ⓘ |
| appearedIn | The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Larry Mazzeo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Ritchie Petrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-08-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| genre | television sitcom ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewsAbout | The Dick Van Dyke Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Ritchie Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| name | Larry Mathews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRoleEndYear | 1966 GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableRoleStartYear | 1961 GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Dick Van Dyke Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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child actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Burbank, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedChildOfFictionalCharacters |
Laura Petrie
NERFINISHED
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Rob Petrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionSeries | The Dick Van Dyke Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Dick Van Dyke
NERFINISHED
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Mary Tyler Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Morey Amsterdam NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Marie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1961–1966 ⓘ |
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: Larry Mathews Description of subject: Larry Mathews is an American former child actor best known for playing Ritchie Petrie, the son of Rob and Laura Petrie, on the classic 1960s sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.