Adam Felber
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Adam Felber is an American writer, comedian, and radio personality best known as a longtime panelist on NPR’s news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adam Felber canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12559958 — 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: Adam Felber Context triple: [Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, panelistsInclude, Adam Felber]
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A.
Justin Furstenfeld
Justin Furstenfeld is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band Blue October.
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B.
Josh Kesselman
Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
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C.
Sean Blumberg
Sean Blumberg is a character portrayed by Greg Grunberg on the television series "Felicity," where he appears as one of the main character's close friends.
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D.
Adam Leff
Adam Leff is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the action-comedy film "Last Action Hero."
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E.
Doug Mankoff
Doug Mankoff is a film and television producer known for financing and executive producing a wide range of independent and prestige projects.
- 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: Adam Felber Target entity description: Adam Felber is an American writer, comedian, and radio personality best known as a longtime panelist on NPR’s news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"
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A.
Justin Furstenfeld
Justin Furstenfeld is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band Blue October.
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B.
Josh Kesselman
Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
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C.
Sean Blumberg
Sean Blumberg is a character portrayed by Greg Grunberg on the television series "Felicity," where he appears as one of the main character's close friends.
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D.
Adam Leff
Adam Leff is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the action-comedy film "Last Action Hero."
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E.
Doug Mankoff
Doug Mankoff is a film and television producer known for financing and executive producing a wide range of independent and prestige projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
human ⓘ radio personality ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| coHostOf | Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Paula Poundstone ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | New York University ⓘ |
| employer | National Public Radio ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
political satire
ⓘ
radio comedy ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
humor ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasPart | role as panelist on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! ⓘ |
| hasPodcast | Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Paula Felber ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | cast of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Real Time with Bill Maher (writer)
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linked to:
Real Time with Bill Maher
Schrödinger's Ball ⓘ The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (writer) ⓘ
linked to:
The Daily Show
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! ⓘ contributions to NPR programming ⓘ humor essays and commentary ⓘ |
| occupation |
comedian
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ podcaster ⓘ radio personality ⓘ television writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | panelist on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! ⓘ |
| spouse | Paula Felber ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Adam Felber Description of subject: Adam Felber is an American writer, comedian, and radio personality best known as a longtime panelist on NPR’s news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!"
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.