McLean Stevenson
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McLean Stevenson was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McLean Stevenson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5612078 — 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: McLean Stevenson Context triple: [Stevenson, hasNotableBearer, McLean Stevenson]
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A.
Stewart St. John
Stewart St. John is a television and film writer-producer known for creating and producing genre and drama series, as well as for his work in audio storytelling and digital media.
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B.
Samuel Miles
Samuel Miles was an American Revolutionary War officer and early political figure from Pennsylvania who later served as a judge and mayor of Philadelphia.
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C.
Pat Sullivan
Pat Sullivan was a star quarterback for Auburn University who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy and later became a college football coach.
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D.
Max Dennison
Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
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E.
Barrie Cassidy
Barrie Cassidy is an Australian political journalist and television presenter best known for hosting the ABC’s long-running political program "Insiders."
- 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: McLean Stevenson Target entity description: McLean Stevenson was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
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A.
Stewart St. John
Stewart St. John is a television and film writer-producer known for creating and producing genre and drama series, as well as for his work in audio storytelling and digital media.
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B.
Samuel Miles
Samuel Miles was an American Revolutionary War officer and early political figure from Pennsylvania who later served as a judge and mayor of Philadelphia.
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C.
Pat Sullivan
Pat Sullivan was a star quarterback for Auburn University who won the 1971 Heisman Trophy and later became a college football coach.
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D.
Max Dennison
Max Dennison is the skeptical teenage protagonist of the Halloween-themed fantasy film "Hocus Pocus," whose actions accidentally resurrect three witches in Salem.
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E.
Barrie Cassidy
Barrie Cassidy is an Australian political journalist and television presenter best known for hosting the ABC’s long-running political program "Insiders."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Hello, Larry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Match Game NERFINISHED ⓘ The Doris Day Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Golden Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ The McLean Stevenson Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child |
Jeff MacGregor
NERFINISHED
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Jennifer Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ Lindsey Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-11-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-02-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Illinois Wesleyan University
NERFINISHED
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Northwestern University ⓘ |
| familyName | Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Edgar McLean Stevenson Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName |
Edgar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableRole | Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | M*A*S*H NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ radio personality ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Normal, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Henry Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Adlai Stevenson I
NERFINISHED
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Adlai Stevenson II NERFINISHED ⓘ Adlai Stevenson III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carrie Williamson
NERFINISHED
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Ginny Fosdick NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Herbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: McLean Stevenson Description of subject: McLean Stevenson was an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Lt. Colonel Henry Blake on the television series M*A*S*H.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.