Edgar
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Edgar is the given first name of American actor and comedian McLean Stevenson, best known for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edgar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21402721 — 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: Edgar Context triple: [McLean Stevenson, givenName, Edgar]
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Edgar
Edgar is the first name of Edgar Allan Poe, the influential 19th-century American writer known for his macabre poetry and pioneering detective fiction.
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Edgar
Edgar was an English royal figure of the late 10th century, notable as the son of King Æthelred the Unready.
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C.
Edgar
Edgar is a fictional character who appears in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," which explores themes of joy, repression, and Puritanism in early New England.
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D.
Edgar
Edgar is the human farmer whose body is taken over and worn as a disguise by the alien "Edgar the Bug" in the film Men in Black.
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E.
Edgar
Edgar is a central protagonist in Ken Follett's historical novel "The Evening and the Morning," whose life and struggles help depict the turbulent transition from the Dark Ages to the early Middle Ages in England.
- 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: Edgar Target entity description: Edgar is the given first name of American actor and comedian McLean Stevenson, best known for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
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A.
Edgar
Edgar is the first name of Edgar Allan Poe, the influential 19th-century American writer known for his macabre poetry and pioneering detective fiction.
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B.
Edgar
Edgar is the human farmer whose body is taken over and worn as a disguise by the alien "Edgar the Bug" in the film Men in Black.
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C.
Edgar
Edgar is a masculine given name of Old English origin, traditionally meaning "wealthy spear" or "prosperous warrior."
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D.
Edgar
Edgar was an English royal figure of the late 10th century, notable as the son of King Æthelred the Unready.
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E.
Edgar
Edgar is a fictional character who appears in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "The May-Pole of Merry Mount," which explores themes of joy, repression, and Puritanism in early New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
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