Uncle Fester
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Addams Family character
comic strip character
fictional character
film character
television character
Uncle Fester is a bald, macabre, and eccentric member of the Addams Family known for his dark humor and bizarre, electricity-themed antics.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uncle Fester canonical | 17 |
| Fester Addams | 1 |
| Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester | 1 |
| Uncle Fester Addams | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986128 — 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: Uncle Fester Context triple: [The Addams Family cartoons by Charles Addams, hasCharacter, Uncle Fester]
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A.
Gomez Addams
Gomez Addams is the eccentric, debonair, and passionately devoted patriarch of the macabre yet loving Addams Family.
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B.
Pugsley Addams
Pugsley Addams is the chubby, good-natured, and mischievously inventive son of the macabre Addams Family, often seen engaging in bizarre experiments and darkly humorous antics with his sister Wednesday.
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C.
Morticia Addams
Morticia Addams is the elegant, darkly glamorous matriarch of the eccentric and macabre Addams family in popular culture.
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D.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
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E.
Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams is a morbid, deadpan, and darkly witty daughter of the eccentric Addams family, known for her gothic appearance and fascination with the macabre.
- 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: Uncle Fester Target entity description: Uncle Fester is a bald, macabre, and eccentric member of the Addams Family known for his dark humor and bizarre, electricity-themed antics.
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A.
Gomez Addams
Gomez Addams is the eccentric, debonair, and passionately devoted patriarch of the macabre yet loving Addams Family.
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B.
Pugsley Addams
Pugsley Addams is the chubby, good-natured, and mischievously inventive son of the macabre Addams Family, often seen engaging in bizarre experiments and darkly humorous antics with his sister Wednesday.
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C.
Morticia Addams
Morticia Addams is the elegant, darkly glamorous matriarch of the eccentric and macabre Addams family in popular culture.
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D.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
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E.
Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams is a morbid, deadpan, and darkly witty daughter of the eccentric Addams family, known for her gothic appearance and fascination with the macabre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Addams Family character
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comic strip character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| alignment | morally ambiguous but affectionate ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Addams Family Values (1993 film)
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The Addams Family (1991 film) ⓘ The Addams Family (2019 animated film) ⓘ The Addams Family (1964 TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
The Addams Family (television series, 1964)
The Addams Family 2 (2021 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Addams Family 2 (2021 animated film)
The New Addams Family (1998 TV series) ⓘ Wednesday ⓘ
surface form:
Wednesday (TV series, 2022)
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Charles Addams ⓘ |
| familyName |
Addams Family universe
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surface form:
Addams
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| fictionalAbility |
conduct electricity through his body
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generate electricity ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Addams Family cartoons by Charles Addams
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surface form:
The New Yorker Addams Family cartoons
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| genre |
black comedy
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horror comedy ⓘ |
| hairStyle | bald head ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
bald
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eccentric ⓘ macabre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bizarre antics
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dark humor ⓘ electricity-themed antics ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Addams Family universe
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surface form:
Addams Family
|
| notableTrait |
can light a bulb in his mouth
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enjoys explosions ⓘ fondness for dynamite ⓘ |
| oftenDepictedAs |
uncle of Pugsley Addams
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uncle of Wednesday Addams ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Christopher Lloyd
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Fred Armisen ⓘ Jackie Coogan ⓘ Michael Roberds ⓘ Patrick Thomas ⓘ |
| relative |
Gomez Addams
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Grandmama Addams ⓘ Lurch ⓘ Morticia Addams ⓘ Pugsley Addams ⓘ Thing ⓘ Wednesday Addams ⓘ |
| typicalClothing | long dark coat ⓘ |
| voicedBy |
Michael Fetterly
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Nick Kroll ⓘ |
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: Uncle Fester Description of subject: Uncle Fester is a bald, macabre, and eccentric member of the Addams Family known for his dark humor and bizarre, electricity-themed antics.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fester Addams
this entity surface form:
Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester
subject surface form:
Addams Family mansion
this entity surface form:
Uncle Fester Addams