Yitzhak Edward Asner
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American Jew
Emmy Award winner
Golden Globe Award winner
activist
film actor
human
television actor
trade unionist
voice actor
Yitzhak Edward Asner, better known as Ed Asner, was an American actor and activist renowned for his role as Lou Grant on both "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its dramatic spin-off "Lou Grant."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yitzhak Edward Asner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10344589 — 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: Yitzhak Edward Asner Context triple: [Ed Asner, birthName, Yitzhak Edward Asner]
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A.
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Taxi" and his work in film, television, and theater over several decades.
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B.
Leonard Orbach
Leonard Orbach was the father of American actor Jerry Orbach and is primarily known in relation to his son’s life and career.
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C.
William Daniels
William Daniels is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Graduate," the TV series "St. Elsewhere," and as the voice of KITT in "Knight Rider."
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D.
William Daniels
William Daniels was an American cinematographer and influential industry figure who helped shape the profession’s standards and advocacy through his role in founding the American Society of Cinematographers.
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E.
Stanley Hoffman
Stanley Hoffman is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Hoffman.
- 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: Yitzhak Edward Asner Target entity description: Yitzhak Edward Asner, better known as Ed Asner, was an American actor and activist renowned for his role as Lou Grant on both "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its dramatic spin-off "Lou Grant."
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A.
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on the sitcom "Taxi" and his work in film, television, and theater over several decades.
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B.
Leonard Orbach
Leonard Orbach was the father of American actor Jerry Orbach and is primarily known in relation to his son’s life and career.
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C.
William Daniels
William Daniels was an American cinematographer and influential industry figure who helped shape the profession’s standards and advocacy through his role in founding the American Society of Cinematographers.
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D.
William Daniels
William Daniels is an American actor known for his roles in films like "The Graduate," the TV series "St. Elsewhere," and as the voice of KITT in "Knight Rider."
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E.
Stanley Hoffman
Stanley Hoffman is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Hoffman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Jew
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Emmy Award winner ⓘ Golden Globe Award winner ⓘ activist ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
NERFINISHED
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Yitzhak Edward Asner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Lou Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-11-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-08-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ashkenazi Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Asner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Edward
ⓘ
Yitzhak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying Lou Grant on Lou Grant
NERFINISHED
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portraying Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
NERFINISHED
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Screen Actors Guild NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Signal Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | Korean War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ed Asner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Elf
NERFINISHED
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Lou Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mary Tyler Moore Show NERFINISHED ⓘ Up NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
ⓘ
actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kansas City, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the Screen Actors Guild ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cindy Gilmore
NERFINISHED
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Nancy Sykes 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: Yitzhak Edward Asner Description of subject: Yitzhak Edward Asner, better known as Ed Asner, was an American actor and activist renowned for his role as Lou Grant on both "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its dramatic spin-off "Lou Grant."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.