Reid Scott
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Reid Scott is an American actor best known for his role as Dan Egan on the HBO political satire series "Veep."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reid Scott canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3084298 — 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: Reid Scott Context triple: [Veep, castMember, Reid Scott]
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A.
Ed Scott
Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
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B.
Scott Reed
Scott Reed is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher known for his work on deep learning and generative models.
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C.
Reid
Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Kevin Swanson
Kevin Swanson is a recurring character on the animated TV show "Family Guy," known as the paraplegic son of Joe and Bonnie Swanson.
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E.
Christian Ross
Christian Ross was the wife of Scottish poet Allan Ramsay, known primarily through her connection to the influential 18th-century literary figure.
- 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: Reid Scott Target entity description: Reid Scott is an American actor best known for his role as Dan Egan on the HBO political satire series "Veep."
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A.
Ed Scott
Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
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B.
Scott Reed
Scott Reed is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher known for his work on deep learning and generative models.
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C.
Reid
Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Kevin Swanson
Kevin Swanson is a recurring character on the animated TV show "Family Guy," known as the paraplegic son of Joe and Bonnie Swanson.
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E.
Christian Ross
Christian Ross was the wife of Scottish poet Allan Ramsay, known primarily through her connection to the influential 18th-century literary figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Late Night
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My Boys ⓘ The Big C ⓘ Veep ⓘ Venom ⓘ Venom: Let There Be Carnage ⓘ Why Women Kill ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
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Syracuse University ⓘ |
| employer | HBO ⓘ |
| familyName | Scott ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | acting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Reid ⓘ |
| industry | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Dan Egan on Veep ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Reid Scott ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Late Night
ⓘ
My Boys ⓘ The Big C ⓘ Veep ⓘ Venom ⓘ Venom: Let There Be Carnage ⓘ Why Women Kill ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Brendan Dorff
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Dan Egan ⓘ Dan Egan in Veep ⓘ Dr. Todd Mauer ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Elspeth Keller ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Reid Scott Description of subject: Reid Scott is an American actor best known for his role as Dan Egan on the HBO political satire series "Veep."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.