Tobolowsky
E296002
American actor
character actor
family name
film actor
human
podcaster
storyteller
surname
television actor
Tobolowsky is the surname of American character actor and storyteller Stephen Tobolowsky, known for his prolific work in film and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tobolowsky canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2758200 — 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: Tobolowsky Context triple: [Stephen Tobolowsky, familyName, Tobolowsky]
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A.
Melvin
Melvin is the full given name of legendary American voice actor and comedian Mel Blanc, famed for voicing many iconic Looney Tunes characters.
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B.
Gruer
Gruer is a character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," involved in the investigation central to the story's plot.
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C.
Michael Maltese
Michael Maltese was an American animation writer and storyman best known for his influential work on classic Warner Bros. cartoons, including many iconic Looney Tunes characters and shorts.
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D.
Bohny
Bohny is the birth surname of American silent-film star Billie Dove, who was born Lillian Bohny.
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E.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
- 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: Tobolowsky Target entity description: Tobolowsky is the surname of American character actor and storyteller Stephen Tobolowsky, known for his prolific work in film and television.
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A.
Melvin
Melvin is the full given name of legendary American voice actor and comedian Mel Blanc, famed for voicing many iconic Looney Tunes characters.
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B.
Gruer
Gruer is a character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," involved in the investigation central to the story's plot.
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C.
Michael Maltese
Michael Maltese was an American animation writer and storyman best known for his influential work on classic Warner Bros. cartoons, including many iconic Looney Tunes characters and shorts.
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D.
Bohny
Bohny is the birth surname of American silent-film star Billie Dove, who was born Lillian Bohny.
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E.
Elwood Mead
Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ family name ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ podcaster ⓘ storyteller ⓘ surname ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Tobolowsky ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Stephen Tobolowsky ⓘ |
| knownFor | prolific character acting in film and television ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Stephen Tobolowsky ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Californication
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Groundhog Day ⓘ Heroes ⓘ Memento ⓘ The Goldbergs ⓘ The Tobolowsky Files ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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podcast host ⓘ storyteller ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| usedBy | Stephen Tobolowsky ⓘ |
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: Tobolowsky Description of subject: Tobolowsky is the surname of American character actor and storyteller Stephen Tobolowsky, known for his prolific work in film and television.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tobolowsky