Sean Maher
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Sean Maher is an American actor best known for playing Dr. Simon Tam in the television series "Firefly" and its film continuation "Serenity."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean Maher canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13174738 — 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: Sean Maher Context triple: [Serenity, castMember, Sean Maher]
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A.
Kevin Maher
Kevin Maher is an English former professional footballer and current football manager best known for his long association with Southend United.
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B.
Michael Maher
Michael Maher is a film producer known for his work on the movie "Passengers."
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C.
Bill Maher
Bill Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host known for his satirical takes on religion and politics, particularly through his show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
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D.
Ken Marino
Ken Marino is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director known for his work in cult TV comedies such as The State, Party Down, and Wet Hot American Summer.
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E.
William Maher
William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host best known for his satirical talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
- 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: Sean Maher Target entity description: Sean Maher is an American actor best known for playing Dr. Simon Tam in the television series "Firefly" and its film continuation "Serenity."
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A.
Kevin Maher
Kevin Maher is an English former professional footballer and current football manager best known for his long association with Southend United.
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B.
Michael Maher
Michael Maher is a film producer known for his work on the movie "Passengers."
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C.
Bill Maher
Bill Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host known for his satirical takes on religion and politics, particularly through his show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
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D.
Ken Marino
Ken Marino is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director known for his work in cult TV comedies such as The State, Party Down, and Wet Hot American Summer.
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E.
William Maher
William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host best known for his satirical talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Arrow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Batman vs. Robin NERFINISHED ⓘ Batman: Bad Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian's Song (2001 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Firefly NERFINISHED ⓘ Justice League vs. Teen Titans NERFINISHED ⓘ Party of Five NERFINISHED ⓘ Serenity NERFINISHED ⓘ Son of Batman NERFINISHED ⓘ Teen Titans: The Judas Contract NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mentalist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Playboy Club NERFINISHED ⓘ Warehouse 13 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Simon Tam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-04-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
ⓘ
Tisch School of the Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Maher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama television
ⓘ
science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | Sean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter
ⓘ
son ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying Dr. Simon Tam in Firefly
ⓘ
portraying Dr. Simon Tam in Serenity ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Sean Maher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Firefly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Serenity NERFINISHED ⓘ voice work as Nightwing in DC animated films ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Pleasantville, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Paul Maher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voicedCharacter |
Dick Grayson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nightwing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1999–present ⓘ |
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: Sean Maher Description of subject: Sean Maher is an American actor best known for playing Dr. Simon Tam in the television series "Firefly" and its film continuation "Serenity."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.