Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows
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Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows is the strict yet comically beleaguered high school principal in the teen comedy film "Mean Girls," portrayed by comedian and actor Tim Meadows.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3760495 — 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: Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows Context triple: [Mean Girls (2004 film), characterPortrayedBy, Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows]
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A.
Jason Seaver
Jason Seaver is the wisecracking psychiatrist father and central figure of the 1980s American sitcom "Growing Pains."
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B.
Boss Daley
Boss Daley was the powerful and long-serving mayor of Chicago who dominated the city’s Democratic political machine in the mid-20th century.
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C.
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.
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D.
William DuVall
William DuVall is an American musician best known as the co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Alice in Chains, succeeding Layne Staley.
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E.
Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
- 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: Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows Target entity description: Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows is the strict yet comically beleaguered high school principal in the teen comedy film "Mean Girls," portrayed by comedian and actor Tim Meadows.
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A.
Jason Seaver
Jason Seaver is the wisecracking psychiatrist father and central figure of the 1980s American sitcom "Growing Pains."
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B.
Boss Daley
Boss Daley was the powerful and long-serving mayor of Chicago who dominated the city’s Democratic political machine in the mid-20th century.
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C.
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.
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D.
William DuVall
William DuVall is an American musician best known as the co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Alice in Chains, succeeding Layne Staley.
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E.
Curt Menefee
Curt Menefee is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime studio host of Fox's NFL coverage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Mean Girls
ⓘ
linked to:
Mean Girls (2004 film)
|
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor |
Mean Girls
ⓘ
linked to:
Mean Girls (2004 film)
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| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | teen comedy film ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in Mean Girls ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Principal Duvall in Mean Girls
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linked to:
Principal Ron Duvall in Mean Girls
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| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ high school principal ⓘ |
| partOf |
Mean Girls franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Mean Girls (musical)
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| portrayedBy | Tim Meadows ⓘ |
| portrays | Principal Duvall ⓘ |
| tone | strict but comically beleaguered ⓘ |
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: Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows Description of subject: Principal Duvall – Tim Meadows is the strict yet comically beleaguered high school principal in the teen comedy film "Mean Girls," portrayed by comedian and actor Tim Meadows.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.