Dave Foley
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Dave Foley is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer best known as a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall and for starring in the sitcom NewsRadio.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Foley canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2117615 — 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: Dave Foley Context triple: [The Kids in the Hall, member, Dave Foley]
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A.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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B.
Drew Carey
Drew Carey is an American comedian, actor, and game show host best known for "The Drew Carey Show" and hosting "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Price Is Right."
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C.
David Spade
David Spade is an American comedian and actor known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in numerous comedy films and television shows.
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D.
Glenn Howerton
Glenn Howerton is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring as Dennis Reynolds on the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Hugh Hunt
Hugh Hunt was an American film art director and set decorator known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Dave Foley Target entity description: Dave Foley is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer best known as a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall and for starring in the sitcom NewsRadio.
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A.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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B.
Drew Carey
Drew Carey is an American comedian, actor, and game show host best known for "The Drew Carey Show" and hosting "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Price Is Right."
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C.
David Spade
David Spade is an American comedian and actor known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in numerous comedy films and television shows.
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D.
Glenn Howerton
Glenn Howerton is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring as Dennis Reynolds on the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Hugh Hunt
Hugh Hunt was an American film art director and set decorator known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
A Bug's Life
ⓘ
Blast from the Past ⓘ Dr. Ken ⓘ Hot in Cleveland ⓘ How I Met Your Mother ⓘ Monsters University ⓘ NewsRadio ⓘ Sky High ⓘ The Kids in the Hall (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Kids in the Hall
The Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy ⓘ
linked to:
The Kids in the Hall
The Middle ⓘ |
| birthName | David Scott Foley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-01-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Humber College (dropped out)
ⓘ
linked to:
Humber College
|
| genre |
sitcom
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sketch comedy ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| hasChild | 3 (two with Tabatha Southey, one with Crissy Guerrero) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding member of The Kids in the Hall
ⓘ
portraying Dave Nelson on NewsRadio ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Kids in the Hall ⓘ |
| name | Dave Foley ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Bug's Life
ⓘ
Brain Candy ⓘ NewsRadio ⓘ The Kids in the Hall ⓘ The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks ⓘ
linked to:
The Kids in the Hall
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Etobicoke
|
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Crissy Guerrero
ⓘ
Tabatha Southey ⓘ |
| voiceRole |
Flik in A Bug's Life
ⓘ
linked to:
Flik
|
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: Dave Foley Description of subject: Dave Foley is a Canadian actor, comedian, and writer best known as a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall and for starring in the sitcom NewsRadio.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.