Eddie Steeples
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Eddie Steeples is an American actor best known for playing the eccentric and soft-spoken character Darnell "Crabman" Turner on the television sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eddie Steeples canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342726 — 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: Eddie Steeples Context triple: [My Name Is Earl, portrayedBy, Eddie Steeples]
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A.
Eddie Pope
Eddie Pope is a retired American soccer defender renowned for his key role with D.C. United and the U.S. national team during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Eddie Leslie
Eddie Leslie was a British screenwriter and actor known for his work on mid-20th-century comedy films.
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C.
Eddie Hamilton
Eddie Hamilton is a British film editor known for his work on high-profile action and blockbuster films, including entries in the "Mission: Impossible" and "Kingsman" franchises.
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D.
Eddie Spears
Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
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E.
Eddie Constantine
Eddie Constantine was an American-born French singer and actor best known for his tough-guy roles in European cinema, particularly as secret agent Lemmy Caution.
- 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: Eddie Steeples Target entity description: Eddie Steeples is an American actor best known for playing the eccentric and soft-spoken character Darnell "Crabman" Turner on the television sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
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A.
Eddie Pope
Eddie Pope is a retired American soccer defender renowned for his key role with D.C. United and the U.S. national team during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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B.
Eddie Leslie
Eddie Leslie was a British screenwriter and actor known for his work on mid-20th-century comedy films.
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C.
Eddie Hamilton
Eddie Hamilton is a British film editor known for his work on high-profile action and blockbuster films, including entries in the "Mission: Impossible" and "Kingsman" franchises.
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D.
Eddie Spears
Eddie Spears is a Native American actor known for his roles in film and television, particularly in Western and Indigenous-themed productions.
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E.
Eddie Constantine
Eddie Constantine was an American-born French singer and actor best known for his tough-guy roles in European cinema, particularly as secret agent Lemmy Caution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Darnell "Crabman" Turner
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linked to:
Darnell Turner
|
| citizenOf |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Steeples ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Eddie ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of Darnell "Crabman" Turner on My Name Is Earl ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livingStatus | living person ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Eddie Steeples ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | eccentric and soft-spoken performance as Darnell "Crabman" Turner ⓘ |
| notableWork | My Name Is Earl ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film performer ⓘ television performer ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of My Name Is Earl ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Eddie Steeples Description of subject: Eddie Steeples is an American actor best known for playing the eccentric and soft-spoken character Darnell "Crabman" Turner on the television sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.