Opie Taylor
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Opie Taylor is the young, red-headed son of Sheriff Andy Taylor on the classic American television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show," known for his innocence, curiosity, and close relationship with his father.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Opie Taylor canonical | 23 |
| Opie | 1 |
| Opie Taylor in The Andy Griffith Show | 1 |
| Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show | 1 |
| Ronny Howard as Opie Taylor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T691387 — 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: Opie Taylor Context triple: [The Andy Griffith Show, character, Opie Taylor]
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A.
Opie Winston
Opie Winston is a central member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and Jax Teller’s loyal best friend in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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B.
Jax Teller
Jax Teller is the conflicted outlaw biker and eventual president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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C.
Willie
Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
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D.
Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford is a loyal, battle-scarred Scottish member and later vice president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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E.
Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin is the anthropomorphic, intellectual family dog from the animated television series "Family Guy," known for his dry wit, liberal views, and close friendship with Stewie Griffin.
- 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: Opie Taylor Target entity description: Opie Taylor is the young, red-headed son of Sheriff Andy Taylor on the classic American television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show," known for his innocence, curiosity, and close relationship with his father.
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A.
Opie Winston
Opie Winston is a central member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club and Jax Teller’s loyal best friend in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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B.
Jax Teller
Jax Teller is the conflicted outlaw biker and eventual president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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C.
Willie
Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
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D.
Chibs Telford
Chibs Telford is a loyal, battle-scarred Scottish member and later vice president of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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E.
Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin is the anthropomorphic, intellectual family dog from the animated television series "Family Guy," known for his dry wit, liberal views, and close friendship with Stewie Griffin.
- 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: Opie Taylor Description of subject: Opie Taylor is the young, red-headed son of Sheriff Andy Taylor on the classic American television sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show," known for his innocence, curiosity, and close relationship with his father.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ronald
linked to: Opie Taylor
subject linked to:
Ronald William Howard
linked to: Opie Taylor
linked to: Opie Taylor
subject linked to:
Main Street
subject linked to:
The Andy Griffith Show episode "A Date for Gomer"
subject linked to:
The Andy Griffith Show episode "Barney Mends a Broken Heart"
subject linked to:
The Andy Griffith Show episode "Barney Mends a Broken Heart"
linked to: Opie Taylor