Tim Kazurinsky
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Tim Kazurinsky is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" in the early 1980s and for co-writing several films including entries in the "Police Academy" series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tim Kazurinsky canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6814154 — 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: Tim Kazurinsky Context triple: [About Last Night (1986 film), screenwriter, Tim Kazurinsky]
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A.
Matt Kaufmann
Matt Kaufmann is a computer scientist best known for his work on automated theorem proving and the ACL2 theorem prover, often in collaboration with J Strother Moore.
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B.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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C.
Michael Kuzak
Michael Kuzak is a central attorney character on the television legal drama "L.A. Law," known for his idealism and high-profile courtroom battles.
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D.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
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E.
Jeff Kodosky
Jeff Kodosky is an American engineer and co-founder of National Instruments, best known as the "father of LabVIEW" for creating the influential graphical programming environment.
- 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: Tim Kazurinsky Target entity description: Tim Kazurinsky is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" in the early 1980s and for co-writing several films including entries in the "Police Academy" series.
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A.
Matt Kaufmann
Matt Kaufmann is a computer scientist best known for his work on automated theorem proving and the ACL2 theorem prover, often in collaboration with J Strother Moore.
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B.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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C.
Michael Kuzak
Michael Kuzak is a central attorney character on the television legal drama "L.A. Law," known for his idealism and high-profile courtroom battles.
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D.
Mark Okerstrom
Mark Okerstrom is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as the former CEO of Expedia Group.
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E.
Jeff Kodosky
Jeff Kodosky is an American engineer and co-founder of National Instruments, best known as the "father of LabVIEW" for creating the influential graphical programming environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American male actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
NERFINISHED
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training NERFINISHED ⓘ Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Timothy James Kazurinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
NERFINISHED
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-03-03 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Polish descent ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-writing films in the Police Academy series
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work on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Saturday Night Live cast
NERFINISHED
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The Second City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Tim Kazurinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
NERFINISHED
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training NERFINISHED ⓘ Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Officer Carl Sweetchuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Marcia Watkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAt | The Second City 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: Tim Kazurinsky Description of subject: Tim Kazurinsky is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" in the early 1980s and for co-writing several films including entries in the "Police Academy" series.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
About Last Night (1986 film)
subject surface form:
Neighbors (1981 film)