The Soup Nazi
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The Soup Nazi is a famously strict and eccentric soup vendor character from the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his catchphrase "No soup for you!"
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Soup Nazi canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3116153 — 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: The Soup Nazi Context triple: [Seinfeld, notableEpisode, The Soup Nazi]
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A.
Gourmet Ghetto
Gourmet Ghetto is a renowned Berkeley neighborhood celebrated as a pioneering hub of California cuisine and artisanal food culture.
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B.
Eater
Eater is a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that explores humanity’s encounter with a mysterious, sentient black hole-like entity.
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C.
Barefoot Contessa
Barefoot Contessa is a popular Food Network cooking show hosted by Ina Garten, known for its approachable, elegant home-style recipes and entertaining tips.
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D.
Shopgirl
Shopgirl is a novella by Steve Martin that explores the lonely, bittersweet romantic entanglements of a young saleswoman in Los Angeles.
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E.
Julie & Julia
Julie & Julia is a 2009 biographical comedy-drama film that intertwines the life of chef Julia Child with a modern-day blogger who cooks her way through Child’s cookbook.
- 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: The Soup Nazi Target entity description: The Soup Nazi is a famously strict and eccentric soup vendor character from the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his catchphrase "No soup for you!"
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A.
Gourmet Ghetto
Gourmet Ghetto is a renowned Berkeley neighborhood celebrated as a pioneering hub of California cuisine and artisanal food culture.
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B.
Eater
Eater is a science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that explores humanity’s encounter with a mysterious, sentient black hole-like entity.
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C.
Barefoot Contessa
Barefoot Contessa is a popular Food Network cooking show hosted by Ina Garten, known for its approachable, elegant home-style recipes and entertaining tips.
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D.
Shopgirl
Shopgirl is a novella by Steve Martin that explores the lonely, bittersweet romantic entanglements of a young saleswoman in Los Angeles.
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E.
Julie & Julia
Julie & Julia is a 2009 biographical comedy-drama film that intertwines the life of chef Julia Child with a modern-day blogger who cooks her way through Child’s cookbook.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside |
Cosmo Kramer
ⓘ
Elaine Benes ⓘ George Costanza ⓘ Jerry Seinfeld ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Seinfeld ⓘ |
| appearsInCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| appearsInEpisodeOfSeries |
Seinfeld season 7
ⓘ
linked to:
Seinfeld
|
| appearsInEpisodeRuntime | approximately 23 minutes ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | sitcom ⓘ |
| basedOn | Al Yeganeh ⓘ |
| businessType | soup stand ⓘ |
| catchphrase | No soup for you! ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritarian
ⓘ
intimidating ⓘ perfectionist ⓘ |
| characterType | antagonist ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Jerry Seinfeld
ⓘ
Larry David ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
became a widely referenced pop culture figure
ⓘ
catchphrase entered popular lexicon ⓘ |
| episodeSetting | New York City ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Seinfeld universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Seinfeld
|
| firstAppearance | The Soup Nazi ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInEpisodeNumber | 6 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInSeason | 7 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a fan-favorite Seinfeld character
ⓘ
eccentric behavior ⓘ harsh treatment of customers ⓘ strict rules for ordering soup ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | possibly Middle Eastern ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | NBC ⓘ |
| occupation | soup vendor ⓘ |
| popCultureCategory | memetic television character ⓘ |
| portrayalRecognition | Larry Thomas received an Emmy nomination for the role ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Larry Thomas ⓘ |
| refusalPhrase | No soup for you! ⓘ |
| serves |
bread
ⓘ
soup ⓘ various gourmet soups ⓘ |
| strictRule |
customers must order quickly and precisely
ⓘ
misbehavior results in refusal of service ⓘ no small talk at the counter ⓘ |
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: The Soup Nazi Description of subject: The Soup Nazi is a famously strict and eccentric soup vendor character from the sitcom "Seinfeld," known for his catchphrase "No soup for you!"
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.