Ron Leibman
E446417
Ron Leibman was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including his Emmy-winning role in "Kaz" and his portrayal of Rachel’s father on "Friends."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ron Leibman canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4497890 — 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: Ron Leibman Context triple: [Jessica Walter, spouse, Ron Leibman]
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A.
Robert Levine
Robert Levine is an American cardiologist best known as the husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.
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B.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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C.
Charles Lachman
Charles Lachman was a businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the American cosmetics company Revlon.
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D.
Marshall Brickman
Marshall Brickman is an American screenwriter, director, and former television writer best known for co-writing several acclaimed Woody Allen films, including "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan."
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E.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
- 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: Ron Leibman Target entity description: Ron Leibman was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including his Emmy-winning role in "Kaz" and his portrayal of Rachel’s father on "Friends."
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A.
Robert Levine
Robert Levine is an American cardiologist best known as the husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore.
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B.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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C.
Charles Lachman
Charles Lachman was a businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the American cosmetics company Revlon.
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D.
Marshall Brickman
Marshall Brickman is an American screenwriter, director, and former television writer best known for co-writing several acclaimed Woody Allen films, including "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan."
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E.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Kaz ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1937-10-11 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2019-12-06 ⓘ |
| familyName | Leibman ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Ron ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| name | Ron Leibman ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Angels in America
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Archer ⓘ Friends ⓘ Garden State ⓘ Kaz ⓘ Norma Rae ⓘ Slaughterhouse-Five ⓘ Where’s Poppa? ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Dr. Leonard Green
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Ron Cadillac ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jessica Walter
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Linda Lavin ⓘ |
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: Ron Leibman Description of subject: Ron Leibman was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including his Emmy-winning role in "Kaz" and his portrayal of Rachel’s father on "Friends."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.