Michael Winslow
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American actor
American comedian
actor
comedian
film actor
human
stand-up comedian
television actor
voice actor
Michael Winslow is an American actor and comedian best known for his vocal sound effects and his role as Larvell Jones in the "Police Academy" film series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Winslow canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12407976 — 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: Michael Winslow Context triple: [Leslie Easterbrook, hasWorkedWith, Michael Winslow]
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A.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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B.
Larry Seiple
Larry Seiple is a former American football player best known as the versatile punter and occasional offensive contributor for the Miami Dolphins during their dominant early-1970s era.
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C.
Michael Hunsaker
Michael Hunsaker is a fictional former Vietnam War comrade of Roger Murtaugh whose involvement in a dangerous heroin-smuggling operation drives much of the plot in the action film "Lethal Weapon."
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D.
Michael Sarnoski
Michael Sarnoski is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the acclaimed drama "Pig" and later helming the horror prequel "A Quiet Place: Day One."
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E.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
- 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: Michael Winslow Target entity description: Michael Winslow is an American actor and comedian best known for his vocal sound effects and his role as Larvell Jones in the "Police Academy" film series.
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A.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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B.
Larry Seiple
Larry Seiple is a former American football player best known as the versatile punter and occasional offensive contributor for the Miami Dolphins during their dominant early-1970s era.
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C.
Michael Hunsaker
Michael Hunsaker is a fictional former Vietnam War comrade of Roger Murtaugh whose involvement in a dangerous heroin-smuggling operation drives much of the plot in the action film "Lethal Weapon."
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D.
Michael Sarnoski
Michael Sarnoski is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the acclaimed drama "Pig" and later helming the horror prequel "A Quiet Place: Day One."
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E.
Matt Firor
Matt Firor is a video game developer and executive best known for leading the creation of large-scale online role-playing games, including directing The Elder Scrolls Online.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
American comedian ⓘ actor ⓘ comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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stand-up comedy ⓘ television ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Larvell Jones ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Winslow ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ entertainment industry ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0935979 ⓘ |
| hasPerformanceSkill |
beatboxing
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sound imitation ⓘ vocal effects ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.michaelwinslowmedia.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Winslow ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFeature | nicknamed the "Man of 10,000 Sound Effects" ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ability to imitate sound effects with his voice
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vocal sound effects ⓘ |
| notableRole | Larvell Jones ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Police Academy film series
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linked to:
Police Academy
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
Police Academy franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Police Academy
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Michael Winslow Description of subject: Michael Winslow is an American actor and comedian best known for his vocal sound effects and his role as Larvell Jones in the "Police Academy" film series.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.