Max Ballard
E1027891
Max Ballard is a central teen character from the 1990s Canadian TV series "Breaker High," which follows high school students attending classes aboard a cruise ship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Ballard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13222103 — 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: Max Ballard Context triple: [Breaker High, hasMainCharacter, Max Ballard]
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A.
James William Ballard
James William Ballard is an actor known for appearing in the action film "Expend4bles."
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B.
Frank Thornton Ball
Frank Thornton Ball, better known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Captain Peacock in the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
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C.
Russ Ballard
Russ Ballard is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known for writing hit songs for artists like Argent, Rainbow, and Kiss, as well as for his own solo work.
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D.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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E.
John Hough
John Hough is a British film and television director best known for his work in horror and genre cinema during the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Max Ballard Target entity description: Max Ballard is a central teen character from the 1990s Canadian TV series "Breaker High," which follows high school students attending classes aboard a cruise ship.
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A.
James William Ballard
James William Ballard is an actor known for appearing in the action film "Expend4bles."
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B.
Frank Thornton Ball
Frank Thornton Ball, better known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor and comedian best known for his role as Captain Peacock in the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?".
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C.
Russ Ballard
Russ Ballard is an English singer, songwriter, and musician best known for writing hit songs for artists like Argent, Rainbow, and Kiss, as well as for his own solo work.
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D.
Jack Bicknell
Jack Bicknell is an American football coach best known for leading Boston College to national prominence in the 1980s, including the famed Doug Flutie era and the 1984 Cotton Bowl victory.
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E.
John Hough
John Hough is a British film and television director best known for his work in horror and genre cinema during the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Breaker High NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| attendsSchoolAt | Breaker High NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Breaker High universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
teen drama
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teen sitcom ⓘ |
| hasAge | teenager ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| partOf | main cast of Breaker High ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Canadian television ⓘ |
| setting | cruise ship ⓘ |
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: Max Ballard Description of subject: Max Ballard is a central teen character from the 1990s Canadian TV series "Breaker High," which follows high school students attending classes aboard a cruise ship.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.