Max Showalter
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Max Showalter was an American character actor and musician known for his prolific work in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Showalter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4446743 — 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: Max Showalter Context triple: [Niagara, starring, Max Showalter]
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A.
Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller is an American former NHL goaltender best known for his standout tenure with the Buffalo Sabres and winning the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goalie.
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B.
Keith Neudecker
Keith Neudecker is the traumatized World Trade Center survivor whose fragmented post-9/11 life and relationships form the emotional core of Don DeLillo’s novel "Falling Man."
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C.
Matt Morris
Matt Morris is an American singer-songwriter and producer known for his work both as a solo artist and as a songwriter for other performers.
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D.
John Matsko
John Matsko is an American football offensive line coach best known for his long NFL coaching career with multiple teams, including the St. Louis Rams during their high-powered "Greatest Show on Turf" era.
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E.
Brett Sutter
Brett Sutter is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward known for his long AHL career and for being part of the prominent Sutter hockey family.
- 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: Max Showalter Target entity description: Max Showalter was an American character actor and musician known for his prolific work in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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A.
Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller is an American former NHL goaltender best known for his standout tenure with the Buffalo Sabres and winning the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goalie.
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B.
Keith Neudecker
Keith Neudecker is the traumatized World Trade Center survivor whose fragmented post-9/11 life and relationships form the emotional core of Don DeLillo’s novel "Falling Man."
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C.
Matt Morris
Matt Morris is an American singer-songwriter and producer known for his work both as a solo artist and as a songwriter for other performers.
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D.
John Matsko
John Matsko is an American football offensive line coach best known for his long NFL coaching career with multiple teams, including the St. Louis Rams during their high-powered "Greatest Show on Turf" era.
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E.
Brett Sutter
Brett Sutter is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward known for his long AHL career and for being part of the prominent Sutter hockey family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1940 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Casey Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Max Showalter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-06-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-07-30 ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Max Showalter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Grandfather in Sixteen Candles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
10
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Bewitched NERFINISHED ⓘ Elmer Gantry NERFINISHED ⓘ Indestructible Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Niagara NERFINISHED ⓘ Perry Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ Pillow Talk NERFINISHED ⓘ Sixteen Candles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Boat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lucy Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Music Man (1962 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Seven Year Itch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Twilight Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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composer ⓘ musician ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| performedIn | Broadway theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Caldwell, Kansas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Middletown, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Middletown, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
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: Max Showalter Description of subject: Max Showalter was an American character actor and musician known for his prolific work in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.