Buster Merryfield
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Buster Merryfield was an English actor best known for playing Uncle Albert in the long-running British sitcom "Only Fools and Horses."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Buster Merryfield canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13185494 — 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: Buster Merryfield Context triple: [Sir David Jason, workedWith, Buster Merryfield]
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A.
Buster Baxter
Buster Baxter is a cheerful, imaginative rabbit and Arthur Read’s best friend in the long-running children's animated series "Arthur."
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B.
Buster Shultz
Buster Shultz is a character appearing in the film "The Cameraman."
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C.
Buster Brown
Buster Brown was an influential American tap dancer and performer known for his smooth style, improvisational brilliance, and mentorship of later tap greats.
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D.
Buster Brown
Buster Brown was an Australian blues-rock band best known as an early vehicle for future AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd.
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E.
Buster Poindexter
Buster Poindexter is the lounge-singer alter ego of New York Dolls frontman David Johansen, best known for his campy, retro-styled performances and the hit song "Hot Hot Hot."
- 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: Buster Merryfield Target entity description: Buster Merryfield was an English actor best known for playing Uncle Albert in the long-running British sitcom "Only Fools and Horses."
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A.
Buster Baxter
Buster Baxter is a cheerful, imaginative rabbit and Arthur Read’s best friend in the long-running children's animated series "Arthur."
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B.
Buster Shultz
Buster Shultz is a character appearing in the film "The Cameraman."
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C.
Buster Brown
Buster Brown was an influential American tap dancer and performer known for his smooth style, improvisational brilliance, and mentorship of later tap greats.
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D.
Buster Brown
Buster Brown was an Australian blues-rock band best known as an early vehicle for future AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd.
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E.
Buster Poindexter
Buster Poindexter is the lounge-singer alter ego of New York Dolls frontman David Johansen, best known for his campy, retro-styled performances and the hit song "Hot Hot Hot."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Harry Merryfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branchOfService | Royal Artillery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Weybridge Cemetery, Surrey, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | brain tumour ⓘ |
| characterRole | Uncle Albert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Karen Merryfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-11-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-06-23 ⓘ |
| employer | National Westminster Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Merryfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryRank | sergeant ⓘ |
| militaryService | British Army ⓘ |
| name | Buster Merryfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Uncle Albert in Only Fools and Horses ⓘ |
| notableWork | Only Fools and Horses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 1 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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bank manager ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Only Fools and Horses ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Battersea, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Poole, Dorset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Weybridge, Surrey, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | boxing ⓘ |
| spouse | Iris Merryfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Only Fools and Horses Christmas specials
NERFINISHED
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Shroud for a Nightingale NERFINISHED ⓘ The Citadel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gaffer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Buster Merryfield Description of subject: Buster Merryfield was an English actor best known for playing Uncle Albert in the long-running British sitcom "Only Fools and Horses."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.