Henny Youngman
E326632
comedian
film actor
gag writer
human
radio performer
stand-up comedian
television personality
violinist
Henny Youngman was a British-American comedian and violinist famed for his rapid-fire one-liners and the catchphrase "Take my wife—please."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henny Youngman canonical | 14 |
| Henny Youngman’s catchphrase "Take my wife, please" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3017670 — 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: Henny Youngman Context triple: [Westchester Hills Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Henny Youngman]
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A.
Jackie Mason
Jackie Mason was an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his Borscht Belt–style Jewish humor, distinctive voice, and frequent appearances in film, television, and on Broadway.
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B.
Don Rickles
Don Rickles was an American stand-up comedian and actor famed for his pioneering insult comedy style and frequent appearances on television and in films from the 1960s onward.
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C.
Guy Lewis
Guy Lewis was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse and popularizing the high-flying "Phi Slama Jama" teams of the 1980s.
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D.
Milton Berle
Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor widely known as one of television’s first major stars, often called “Mr. Television” for his pioneering role in early TV entertainment.
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E.
Steve Allen
Steve Allen was an American television personality, comedian, musician, and writer best known as the original host and creator of the late-night talk show format in the United States.
- 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: Henny Youngman Target entity description: Henny Youngman was a British-American comedian and violinist famed for his rapid-fire one-liners and the catchphrase "Take my wife—please."
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A.
Jackie Mason
Jackie Mason was an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his Borscht Belt–style Jewish humor, distinctive voice, and frequent appearances in film, television, and on Broadway.
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B.
Don Rickles
Don Rickles was an American stand-up comedian and actor famed for his pioneering insult comedy style and frequent appearances on television and in films from the 1960s onward.
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C.
Guy Lewis
Guy Lewis was a Hall of Fame American college basketball coach best known for building the University of Houston into a national powerhouse and popularizing the high-flying "Phi Slama Jama" teams of the 1980s.
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D.
Milton Berle
Milton Berle was an American comedian and actor widely known as one of television’s first major stars, often called “Mr. Television” for his pioneering role in early TV entertainment.
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E.
Steve Allen
Steve Allen was an American television personality, comedian, musician, and writer best known as the original host and creator of the late-night talk show format in the United States.
- 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: Henny Youngman Description of subject: Henny Youngman was a British-American comedian and violinist famed for his rapid-fire one-liners and the catchphrase "Take my wife—please."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles
subject linked to:
Take my wife—please
subject linked to:
Take my wife—please
subject linked to:
Take my wife—please
linked to: Henny Youngman
subject linked to:
Take my wife—please