Tom Lester
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Tom Lester was an American actor best known for his role as the naive farmhand Eb Dawson on the classic television sitcom "Green Acres."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Lester canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11857818 — 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: Tom Lester Context triple: [Green Acres, starring, Tom Lester]
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A.
Don Saleski
Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
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B.
Tom Lofaro
Tom Lofaro is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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C.
Gary Sutter
Gary Sutter is a member of the prominent Sutter family associated with professional ice hockey.
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D.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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E.
Bobby Lester
Bobby Lester was an American singer best known as a member of the Chicago soul and R&B group The Chi-Lites.
- 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: Tom Lester Target entity description: Tom Lester was an American actor best known for his role as the naive farmhand Eb Dawson on the classic television sitcom "Green Acres."
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A.
Don Saleski
Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
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B.
Tom Lofaro
Tom Lofaro is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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C.
Gary Sutter
Gary Sutter is a member of the prominent Sutter family associated with professional ice hockey.
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D.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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E.
Bobby Lester
Bobby Lester was an American singer best known as a member of the Chicago soul and R&B group The Chi-Lites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn | United States television industry ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Benji
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gordy NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Acres NERFINISHED ⓘ Petticoat Junction NERFINISHED ⓘ The Beverly Hillbillies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | rural sitcoms of the 1960s ⓘ |
| birthName | Thomas William Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hickory Grove Cemetery, Laurel, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from Parkinson's disease ⓘ |
| characterDescription | naive farmhand Eb Dawson on Green Acres ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-09-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-04-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 2007 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | chemistry ⓘ |
| genre | television ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | Laurel, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre | situation comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Eb Dawson on Green Acres ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Tom Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Eb Dawson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Green Acres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
evangelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Laurel, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousActivity | traveling Christian speaker ⓘ |
| religiousDenomination | Protestant Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Kaylie Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionDebut | Green Acres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Eddie Albert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eva Gabor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1965–2014 ⓘ |
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: Tom Lester Description of subject: Tom Lester was an American actor best known for his role as the naive farmhand Eb Dawson on the classic television sitcom "Green Acres."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.