Matthew Garber
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Matthew Garber was a British child actor best known for playing Michael Banks in Disney’s classic film "Mary Poppins" (1964).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Garber canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5741911 — 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: Matthew Garber Context triple: [Michael Banks, portrayedBy, Matthew Garber]
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A.
Spencer Laudiero
Spencer Laudiero is an American animation director and storyboard artist known for his work on television series such as "Family Guy" and "The Orville."
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B.
Adam Kimmel
Adam Kimmel is an American cinematographer known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Capote," "Lars and the Real Girl," and "Never Let Me Go."
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C.
Matthew Stuecken
Matthew Stuecken is a film screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological sci-fi thriller "10 Cloverfield Lane."
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D.
Mason Novick
Mason Novick is an American film producer and talent manager best known for producing acclaimed independent films such as "Juno," "500 Days of Summer," and "Young Adult."
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E.
Michael Kube-McDowell
Michael Kube-McDowell is an American science fiction author known for his novels, short stories, and contributions to major franchises such as Star Wars.
- 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: Matthew Garber Target entity description: Matthew Garber was a British child actor best known for playing Michael Banks in Disney’s classic film "Mary Poppins" (1964).
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A.
Spencer Laudiero
Spencer Laudiero is an American animation director and storyboard artist known for his work on television series such as "Family Guy" and "The Orville."
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B.
Adam Kimmel
Adam Kimmel is an American cinematographer known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Capote," "Lars and the Real Girl," and "Never Let Me Go."
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C.
Matthew Stuecken
Matthew Stuecken is a film screenwriter best known for co-writing the psychological sci-fi thriller "10 Cloverfield Lane."
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D.
Mason Novick
Mason Novick is an American film producer and talent manager best known for producing acclaimed independent films such as "Juno," "500 Days of Summer," and "Young Adult."
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E.
Michael Kube-McDowell
Michael Kube-McDowell is an American science fiction author known for his novels, short stories, and contributions to major franchises such as Star Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Mary Poppins
NERFINISHED
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The Gnome-Mobile NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Lives of Thomasina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Disney Legends (posthumous)
NERFINISHED
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Disney Legends Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Send, Surrey, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pancreatitis ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Dick Van Dyke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Julie Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ Karen Dotrice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateAwarded | 2004 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-03-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1977-06-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St Paul’s School, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| father | Louis Leonard Garber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
family film
ⓘ
fantasy film ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Margaret Garber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Michael Banks in Mary Poppins ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mary Poppins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Gnome-Mobile NERFINISHED ⓘ The Three Lives of Thomasina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
child actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Stepney, London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hampstead, London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Michael Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Fergus Garber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Robert Stevenson
NERFINISHED
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Walt Disney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1963–1967 ⓘ |
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: Matthew Garber Description of subject: Matthew Garber was a British child actor best known for playing Michael Banks in Disney’s classic film "Mary Poppins" (1964).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.