Richard Wagstaff Clark
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Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American radio and television personality best known for hosting the long-running music show "American Bandstand" and the annual "New Year's Rockin' Eve" broadcasts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Wagstaff Clark canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2817903 — 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 Wagstaff Clark Context triple: [Dick Clark, fullName, Richard Wagstaff Clark]
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A.
William Brooks Clift
William Brooks Clift was the father of acclaimed American actor Montgomery Clift and a member of a prominent New York family involved in finance and business.
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B.
Robert Earle Clarke
Robert Earle Clarke is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player best known as a Hall of Fame center and longtime captain of the Philadelphia Flyers.
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C.
Edward Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery Clift was an influential American film and stage actor known for his emotionally intense, naturalistic performances in classic mid-20th-century films such as "A Place in the Sun" and "From Here to Eternity."
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D.
James Clark
James Clark is a notable figure in the web and technology community recognized for his significant contributions to open standards and digital publishing.
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E.
Arthur Whitten Brown
Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
- 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 Wagstaff Clark Target entity description: Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American radio and television personality best known for hosting the long-running music show "American Bandstand" and the annual "New Year's Rockin' Eve" broadcasts.
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A.
William Brooks Clift
William Brooks Clift was the father of acclaimed American actor Montgomery Clift and a member of a prominent New York family involved in finance and business.
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B.
Robert Earle Clarke
Robert Earle Clarke is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player best known as a Hall of Fame center and longtime captain of the Philadelphia Flyers.
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C.
Edward Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery Clift was an influential American film and stage actor known for his emotionally intense, naturalistic performances in classic mid-20th-century films such as "A Place in the Sun" and "From Here to Eternity."
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D.
James Clark
James Clark is a notable figure in the web and technology community recognized for his significant contributions to open standards and digital publishing.
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E.
Arthur Whitten Brown
Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
game show host
ⓘ
human ⓘ radio personality ⓘ television personality ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2012 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Dick Clark ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daytime Emmy Award
ⓘ
linked to:
Daytime Emmy Awards
Peabody Award ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
|
| causeOfDeath | myocardial infarction ⓘ |
| child | Richard A. Clark ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-11-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-04-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
A.B. Davis High School
ⓘ
Syracuse University ⓘ |
| employer |
ABC Radio
ⓘ
linked to:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
American Broadcasting Company ⓘ WFIL (Philadelphia radio station) ⓘ
linked to:
WFIL
|
| familyName | Clark ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcasting
ⓘ
music television ⓘ |
| founded | Dick Clark Productions ⓘ |
| genre | popular music television ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| honor |
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
ⓘ
Inducted into the Television Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| hosted |
American Bandstand
ⓘ
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve ⓘ TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes ⓘ
linked to:
Candid Camera
The $10,000 Pyramid ⓘ
linked to:
The $100,000 Pyramid
The $100,000 Pyramid ⓘ The $25,000 Pyramid ⓘ
linked to:
The $100,000 Pyramid
|
| middleName | Wagstaff ⓘ |
| name | Richard Wagstaff Clark ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Bandstand
ⓘ
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve ⓘ Pyramid (game show) ⓘ
linked to:
The $100,000 Pyramid
|
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
radio host ⓘ television host ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Mount Vernon, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Mount Vernon, New York
|
| placeOfDeath |
Santa Monica, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Monica
|
| residence |
Burbank, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Burbank, California
Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Barbara Mallery
ⓘ
Kari Wigton ⓘ Loretta Martin ⓘ |
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 Wagstaff Clark Description of subject: Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American radio and television personality best known for hosting the long-running music show "American Bandstand" and the annual "New Year's Rockin' Eve" broadcasts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.