Zach Galifianakis
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Zach Galifianakis is an American comedian and actor best known for his offbeat, deadpan humor and breakout role in the hit comedy film series "The Hangover."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zach Galifianakis canonical | 54 |
| Ethan Tremblay – Zach Galifianakis | 1 |
| Galifianakis | 1 |
| Merritt Galifianakis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1987374 — 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)
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Target entity: Zach Galifianakis Context triple: [The Hangover, portrayedBy, Zach Galifianakis]
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Bill Hader
Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for creating and starring in the dark comedy series Barry.
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B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
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Charlie Day
Charlie Day is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known for his manic, high-energy performances in projects like the sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and various film comedies.
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Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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Fred Armisen
Fred Armisen is an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and co-creating and starring in the sketch series Portlandia.
- 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: Zach Galifianakis Target entity description: Zach Galifianakis is an American comedian and actor best known for his offbeat, deadpan humor and breakout role in the hit comedy film series "The Hangover."
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A.
Bill Hader
Bill Hader is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and for creating and starring in the dark comedy series Barry.
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B.
B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
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C.
Charlie Day
Charlie Day is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known for his manic, high-energy performances in projects like the sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and various film comedies.
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D.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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E.
Fred Armisen
Fred Armisen is an American comedian, actor, writer, and musician best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and co-creating and starring in the sketch series Portlandia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Zach Galifianakis Description of subject: Zach Galifianakis is an American comedian and actor best known for his offbeat, deadpan humor and breakout role in the hit comedy film series "The Hangover."
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Puss in Boots
linked to: Zach Galifianakis
linked to: Zach Galifianakis
linked to: Zach Galifianakis
subject linked to:
feature film "Out Cold"