Ted Cassidy
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Ted Cassidy was an American actor best known for his towering height and deep voice, notably portraying Lurch on the television series "The Addams Family."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ted Cassidy canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4484728 — 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: Ted Cassidy Context triple: [The Corbomite Maneuver, guestStar, Ted Cassidy]
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Ken Morrow
Ken Morrow is an American former defenseman best known for winning gold with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and then capturing four consecutive Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders.
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B.
John Brophy
John Brophy was an influential American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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C.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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D.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
- 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: Ted Cassidy Target entity description: Ted Cassidy was an American actor best known for his towering height and deep voice, notably portraying Lurch on the television series "The Addams Family."
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A.
Ken Morrow
Ken Morrow is an American former defenseman best known for winning gold with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and then capturing four consecutive Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders.
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B.
John Brophy
John Brophy was an influential American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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C.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
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D.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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E.
Cliff Hagan
Cliff Hagan is an American Hall of Fame basketball player best known for his scoring prowess with the St. Louis Hawks and later as a player-coach in the ABA.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Ted Cassidy Description of subject: Ted Cassidy was an American actor best known for his towering height and deep voice, notably portraying Lurch on the television series "The Addams Family."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.