Edward Bridge Danson III
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Edward Bridge Danson III, better known as Ted Danson, is an American actor and producer renowned for his Emmy-winning role as bartender Sam Malone on the sitcom "Cheers" and numerous other film and television performances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danson | 2 |
| Edward Bridge Danson III canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3567087 — 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: Edward Bridge Danson III Context triple: [Ted Danson, birthName, Edward Bridge Danson III]
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A.
James Durkan
James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
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B.
David Durkan
David Durkan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
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C.
Michael Dorsey
Michael Dorsey is the struggling, perfectionist New York actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a soap-opera role in the 1982 film "Tootsie."
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D.
Derek Bryceson
Derek Bryceson was a British-born Tanzanian politician and conservationist who served as director of Tanzania’s national parks and played a key role in supporting Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research.
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E.
John Dunlavy
John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
- 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: Edward Bridge Danson III Target entity description: Edward Bridge Danson III, better known as Ted Danson, is an American actor and producer renowned for his Emmy-winning role as bartender Sam Malone on the sitcom "Cheers" and numerous other film and television performances.
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A.
James Durkan
James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
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B.
David Durkan
David Durkan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
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C.
Michael Dorsey
Michael Dorsey is the struggling, perfectionist New York actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a soap-opera role in the 1982 film "Tootsie."
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D.
Derek Bryceson
Derek Bryceson was a British-born Tanzanian politician and conservationist who served as director of Tanzania’s national parks and played a key role in supporting Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research.
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E.
John Dunlavy
John Dunlavy was an early 19th-century American religious leader and writer involved in the dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery and later known for his association with the Shaker movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Edward Bridge Danson III Description of subject: Edward Bridge Danson III, better known as Ted Danson, is an American actor and producer renowned for his Emmy-winning role as bartender Sam Malone on the sitcom "Cheers" and numerous other film and television performances.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edward Bridge Danson III
linked to: Edward Bridge Danson III