Ted Ross
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Ted Ross was an American actor best known for his Tony- and Oscar-winning portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in the stage and film versions of "The Wiz."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Ross canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10749953 — 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: Ted Ross Context triple: [The Wiz (film), starring, Ted Ross]
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A.
Tony Ressler
Tony Ressler is an American billionaire private equity investor and co-founder of Apollo Global Management and Ares Management, who is also a principal owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks.
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B.
Daniel Ross
Daniel Ross is the son of John Ross, likely known primarily in relation to his father.
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C.
Daniel Ross
Daniel Ross is an American voice actor best known for portraying iconic animated characters, including voicing Donald Duck in various Disney productions.
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D.
Marty Roe
Marty Roe is an American country music singer best known as the lead vocalist of the band Diamond Rio.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- 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: Ted Ross Target entity description: Ted Ross was an American actor best known for his Tony- and Oscar-winning portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in the stage and film versions of "The Wiz."
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A.
Tony Ressler
Tony Ressler is an American billionaire private equity investor and co-founder of Apollo Global Management and Ares Management, who is also a principal owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks.
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B.
Daniel Ross
Daniel Ross is the son of John Ross, likely known primarily in relation to his father.
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C.
Daniel Ross
Daniel Ross is an American voice actor best known for portraying iconic animated characters, including voicing Donald Duck in various Disney productions.
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D.
Marty Roe
Marty Roe is an American country music singer best known as the lead vocalist of the band Diamond Rio.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for acting
NERFINISHED
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Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African American
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| familyName | Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Theodore ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Cowardly Lion in The Wiz (film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cowardly Lion in The Wiz (stage) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ted Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in The Wiz on stage
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portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in the film adaptation of The Wiz ⓘ |
| notableRole | Cowardly Lion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Wiz (1978 film)
NERFINISHED
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The Wiz (stage production) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of The Wiz (1978 film)
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cast of The Wiz (Broadway production) ⓘ |
| performingArtsDiscipline |
film acting
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway, New York City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Ted Ross Description of subject: Ted Ross was an American actor best known for his Tony- and Oscar-winning portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in the stage and film versions of "The Wiz."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Inglewood Park Cemetery