Martin Short
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Martin Short is a Canadian-American comedian and actor renowned for his energetic characters and work on sketch comedy shows, films, and Broadway.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin Short canonical | 56 |
| Canadian comedian Martin Short | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2644453 — 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: Martin Short Context triple: [Frankenweenie (2012 film), voiceCast, Martin Short]
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A.
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters was an influential American comedian and actor renowned for his improvisational genius, character work, and pioneering impact on modern stand-up and sketch comedy.
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B.
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase is an American comedian and actor best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and the "National Lampoon's Vacation" film series.
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C.
Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney was an influential American comedian, writer, and actor best known for his sharp, uncompromising commentary on race and his writing work with Richard Pryor.
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D.
Harvey Korman
Harvey Korman was an American comedic actor best known for his work on *The Carol Burnett Show* and in Mel Brooks films such as *Blazing Saddles* and *History of the World, Part I*.
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E.
Rick Moranis
Rick Moranis is a Canadian actor and comedian best known for his roles in films such as Ghostbusters, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and Spaceballs.
- 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: Martin Short Target entity description: Martin Short is a Canadian-American comedian and actor renowned for his energetic characters and work on sketch comedy shows, films, and Broadway.
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A.
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters was an influential American comedian and actor renowned for his improvisational genius, character work, and pioneering impact on modern stand-up and sketch comedy.
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B.
Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase is an American comedian and actor best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and the "National Lampoon's Vacation" film series.
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C.
Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney was an influential American comedian, writer, and actor best known for his sharp, uncompromising commentary on race and his writing work with Richard Pryor.
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D.
Harvey Korman
Harvey Korman was an American comedic actor best known for his work on *The Carol Burnett Show* and in Mel Brooks films such as *Blazing Saddles* and *History of the World, Part I*.
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E.
Rick Moranis
Rick Moranis is a Canadian actor and comedian best known for his roles in films such as Ghostbusters, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and Spaceballs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Martin Short Description of subject: Martin Short is a Canadian-American comedian and actor renowned for his energetic characters and work on sketch comedy shows, films, and Broadway.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Father of the Bride
subject linked to:
Billy Flynn in Chicago
subject linked to:
Hayao Miyazaki’s film "The Wind Rises"
linked to: Martin Short