Jamie Farr
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Jamie Farr is an American actor and comedian best known for playing Corporal Maxwell Klinger on the television series M*A*S*H.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jamie Farr canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6221246 — 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: Jamie Farr Context triple: [Toledo Mud Hens, notableFan, Jamie Farr]
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A.
Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes was an English television and film actor best known for his role as Bob Ferris in the popular sitcom "The Likely Lads" and its sequel "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?".
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B.
Jeff Morrow
Jeff Morrow was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, particularly in biblical epics and science fiction movies.
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C.
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
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D.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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E.
David Hennings
David Hennings is a film cinematographer known for his work on major studio comedies and other feature films, including "Horrible Bosses."
- 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: Jamie Farr Target entity description: Jamie Farr is an American actor and comedian best known for playing Corporal Maxwell Klinger on the television series M*A*S*H.
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A.
Rodney Bewes
Rodney Bewes was an English television and film actor best known for his role as Bob Ferris in the popular sitcom "The Likely Lads" and its sequel "Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?".
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B.
Jeff Morrow
Jeff Morrow was an American actor best known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, particularly in biblical epics and science fiction movies.
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C.
Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar was an American character actor best known for playing Peter Thornton on the television series "MacGyver" and for his numerous supporting roles in film and TV.
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D.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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E.
David Hennings
David Hennings is a film cinematographer known for his work on major studio comedies and other feature films, including "Horrible Bosses."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military personnel of the Korean War
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
AfterMASH
NERFINISHED
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M*A*S*H NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Jameel Joseph Farah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Korean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934-07-01 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Lebanese American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Farah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jameel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0268460 ⓘ |
| honor | Toledo golf tournament renamed Jamie Farr Toledo Classic ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Jamie Farr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
Murder, She Wrote
NERFINISHED
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The Dick Van Dyke Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Boat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Red Skelton Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStageWork |
Guys and Dolls
NERFINISHED
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The Odd Couple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
AfterMASH
NERFINISHED
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M*A*S*H NERFINISHED ⓘ Scrooged NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cannonball Run NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cannonball Run II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Toledo, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Maronite Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joyce (née) Indig Farr
NERFINISHED
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Joyce Indig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionRole | Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceWork |
The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible
NERFINISHED
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Tom and Jerry Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–present ⓘ |
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: Jamie Farr Description of subject: Jamie Farr is an American actor and comedian best known for playing Corporal Maxwell Klinger on the television series M*A*S*H.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.