Glenn Shadix
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Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Glenn Shadix canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2894035 — 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: Glenn Shadix Context triple: [The Nightmare Before Christmas, voiceActor, Glenn Shadix]
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A.
Rob Tapert
Rob Tapert is an American film and television producer best known for co-creating and producing genre series like Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, as well as collaborating frequently with director Sam Raimi on horror and fantasy projects.
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B.
Sean Hartnett
Sean Hartnett is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname Hartnett, with no widely recognized public profile or achievements documented.
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C.
Ed Vargo
Ed Vargo was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League for over two decades and officiated multiple World Series and All-Star Games.
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D.
Alex Gartner
Alex Gartner is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the action thriller "Triple Frontier."
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E.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
- 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: Glenn Shadix Target entity description: Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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A.
Rob Tapert
Rob Tapert is an American film and television producer best known for co-creating and producing genre series like Xena: Warrior Princess and Spartacus, as well as collaborating frequently with director Sam Raimi on horror and fantasy projects.
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B.
Sean Hartnett
Sean Hartnett is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the surname Hartnett, with no widely recognized public profile or achievements documented.
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C.
Ed Vargo
Ed Vargo was a prominent Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the National League for over two decades and officiated multiple World Series and All-Star Games.
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D.
Alex Gartner
Alex Gartner is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the action thriller "Triple Frontier."
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E.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Beetlejuice
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Carnivàle ⓘ Demolition Man ⓘ Heathers ⓘ Planet of the Apes (2001 film) ⓘ The Nightmare Before Christmas ⓘ |
| birthName | William Glenn Shadix ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | head injury from a fall ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-04-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-09-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Shadix ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Glenn
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William ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of Otho in Beetlejuice ⓘ |
| name | Glenn Shadix self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beetlejuice
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Carnivàle ⓘ Demolition Man ⓘ Heathers ⓘ Justice League ⓘ
surface form:
Justice League (animated series)
Planet of the Apes (2001 film) ⓘ Teen Titans (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Teen Titans (animated series)
The Nightmare Before Christmas ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
stage actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bessemer, Alabama
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surface form:
Bessemer, Alabama, United States
|
| placeOfDeath | Birmingham, Alabama, United States ⓘ |
| portrayed | Otho Fenlock in Beetlejuice ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalian ⓘ |
| residence |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| voiced |
Mayor in The Nightmare Before Christmas video games
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Mayor of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas ⓘ characters in Jackie Chan Adventures ⓘ characters in Justice League (animated series) ⓘ characters in Teen Titans (animated series) ⓘ |
| wasActiveIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Glenn Shadix Description of subject: Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.