Richard Dysart
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Richard Dysart was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as attorney Leland McKenzie on the television series "L.A. Law."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Dysart canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10676825 — 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: Richard Dysart Context triple: [Being There, starring, Richard Dysart]
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A.
Martin Dysart
Martin Dysart is the troubled child psychiatrist in Peter Shaffer’s play "Equus," whose treatment of a disturbed boy forces him to confront his own doubts about passion, normality, and the cost of psychological "cure."
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B.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
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C.
Dr. Lance Sweets
Dr. Lance Sweets is a young, enthusiastic FBI psychologist and profiler on the TV series "Bones," known for analyzing the team’s interpersonal dynamics and criminal behavior.
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D.
Teddy Altman
Teddy Altman is a cardiothoracic surgeon and recurring main character on the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy, known for her complex personal relationships and military background.
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E.
Paul Brenner
Paul Brenner is an undercover U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division agent who serves as the central protagonist in Nelson DeMille’s military crime thriller "The General’s Daughter."
- 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: Richard Dysart Target entity description: Richard Dysart was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as attorney Leland McKenzie on the television series "L.A. Law."
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A.
Martin Dysart
Martin Dysart is the troubled child psychiatrist in Peter Shaffer’s play "Equus," whose treatment of a disturbed boy forces him to confront his own doubts about passion, normality, and the cost of psychological "cure."
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B.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
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C.
Dr. Lance Sweets
Dr. Lance Sweets is a young, enthusiastic FBI psychologist and profiler on the TV series "Bones," known for analyzing the team’s interpersonal dynamics and criminal behavior.
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D.
Teddy Altman
Teddy Altman is a cardiothoracic surgeon and recurring main character on the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy, known for her complex personal relationships and military background.
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E.
Paul Brenner
Paul Brenner is an undercover U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division agent who serves as the central protagonist in Nelson DeMille’s military crime thriller "The General’s Daughter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeYearsInCareer | 1950s–2000s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
An Enemy of the People (1978 film)
NERFINISHED
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Back to the Future Part III NERFINISHED ⓘ L.A. Law: The Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ Mask (1985 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Pale Rider NERFINISHED ⓘ Prophecy (1979 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hindenburg (1975 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hospital (1971 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thing (1982 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Wall Street (1987 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | L.A. Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard Allen Dysart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | Korean War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-03-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-04-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Emerson College
NERFINISHED
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Syracuse University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | White American ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying authoritative professional characters ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Richard Dysart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Leland McKenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | L.A. Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Santa Monica, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Kathryn Jacobi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theaterWork |
Broadway productions
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Off-Broadway productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Richard Dysart Description of subject: Richard Dysart was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as attorney Leland McKenzie on the television series "L.A. Law."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.