Richard Masur
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Richard Masur is an American character actor known for his extensive film and television work since the 1970s, including roles in movies like "Risky Business" and the miniseries "It."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Masur canonical | 22 |
| Eugene Mazzola | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3301013 — 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: Richard Masur Context triple: [Risky Business, starring, Richard Masur]
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A.
Patrick Fischler
Patrick Fischler is an American character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like Mulholland Drive, Mad Men, and Lost.
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B.
Martin Jurow
Martin Jurow was an American film producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood movies, including the iconic Audrey Hepburn film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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C.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
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D.
Anthony Kilhoffer
Anthony Kilhoffer is a Grammy-winning American record producer and audio engineer known for his extensive work with artists like Kanye West and other major hip-hop and pop acts.
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E.
Michael Kozoll
Michael Kozoll is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the influential police drama series "Hill Street Blues."
- 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: Richard Masur Target entity description: Richard Masur is an American character actor known for his extensive film and television work since the 1970s, including roles in movies like "Risky Business" and the miniseries "It."
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A.
Patrick Fischler
Patrick Fischler is an American character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like Mulholland Drive, Mad Men, and Lost.
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B.
Martin Jurow
Martin Jurow was an American film producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century Hollywood movies, including the iconic Audrey Hepburn film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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C.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
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D.
Anthony Kilhoffer
Anthony Kilhoffer is a Grammy-winning American record producer and audio engineer known for his extensive work with artists like Kanye West and other major hip-hop and pop acts.
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E.
Michael Kozoll
Michael Kozoll is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the influential police drama series "Hill Street Blues."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Richard Masur Description of subject: Richard Masur is an American character actor known for his extensive film and television work since the 1970s, including roles in movies like "Risky Business" and the miniseries "It."
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Richard Masur
subject linked to:
Terror in a Texas Town (1958 film)
linked to: Richard Masur
subject linked to:
Adam