John Keister
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John Keister is an American comedian and television personality best known as a longtime cast member and host of the Seattle-based sketch comedy show "Almost Live!".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Keister canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12542368 — 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: John Keister Context triple: [Almost Live!, hasCastMember, John Keister]
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A.
Kirk Stievely
Kirk Stievely is a British actor best known as the former husband of actress Victoria Tennant.
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B.
Joss Christensen
Joss Christensen is an American freestyle skier best known for winning the inaugural Olympic gold medal in men's slopestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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C.
George Keister
George Keister was an American architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century theaters and commercial buildings in New York City.
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D.
Kip Pardue
Kip Pardue is an American actor and former model best known for his roles in films like "Remember the Titans" and "Driven."
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E.
Brian Kerwin
Brian Kerwin is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including roles in movies like "King Kong Lives" and various popular TV series.
- 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: John Keister Target entity description: John Keister is an American comedian and television personality best known as a longtime cast member and host of the Seattle-based sketch comedy show "Almost Live!".
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A.
Kirk Stievely
Kirk Stievely is a British actor best known as the former husband of actress Victoria Tennant.
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B.
Joss Christensen
Joss Christensen is an American freestyle skier best known for winning the inaugural Olympic gold medal in men's slopestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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C.
George Keister
George Keister was an American architect best known for designing prominent early 20th-century theaters and commercial buildings in New York City.
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D.
Kip Pardue
Kip Pardue is an American actor and former model best known for his roles in films like "Remember the Titans" and "Driven."
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E.
Brian Kerwin
Brian Kerwin is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including roles in movies like "King Kong Lives" and various popular TV series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ human ⓘ television personality ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Northwest Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Shorecrest High School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Washington ⓘ |
| employer | KING-TV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Keister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
stand-up comedy
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television comedy ⓘ |
| genre | sketch comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Connor Keister
NERFINISHED
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Keegan Keister NERFINISHED ⓘ Riley Keister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
parody
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| name | John Keister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Seattle-based sketch comedy ⓘ |
| notableRole |
cast member of Almost Live!
ⓘ
host of Almost Live! ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Almost Live!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The John Report with Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ local Seattle television specials ⓘ |
| occupation |
comedian
ⓘ
television actor ⓘ television host ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partOf | Seattle comedy scene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Almost Live!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The John Report with Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Keister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John Keister Description of subject: John Keister is an American comedian and television personality best known as a longtime cast member and host of the Seattle-based sketch comedy show "Almost Live!".
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.