Wolf Martin Garber
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Wolf Martin Garber is the birth name of American actor Bill Macy, best known for his role as Walter Findlay on the 1970s sitcom "Maude."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wolf Martin Garber canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6966794 — 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: Wolf Martin Garber Context triple: [Bill Macy, birthName, Wolf Martin Garber]
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A.
Stephen Endlicher
Stephen Endlicher was a 19th-century Austrian botanist and linguist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
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B.
Wolf Huber
Wolf Huber was a 16th-century Austrian painter and printmaker associated with the Danube School, known for his expressive religious works and detailed landscapes.
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C.
Fredric Steinkamp
Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor best known for his acclaimed work on major Hollywood productions, including the Oscar-winning epic "Out of Africa."
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D.
Fred Karger
Fred Karger was an American musician and vocal coach best known for his work at major Hollywood studios and his long, on-and-off marriage to actress Jane Wyman.
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E.
Fred Schuler
Fred Schuler is a cinematographer best known for his work on films such as the 1980 comedy "Stir Crazy."
- 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: Wolf Martin Garber Target entity description: Wolf Martin Garber is the birth name of American actor Bill Macy, best known for his role as Walter Findlay on the 1970s sitcom "Maude."
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A.
Stephen Endlicher
Stephen Endlicher was a 19th-century Austrian botanist and linguist known for his influential work in plant taxonomy and classification.
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B.
Wolf Huber
Wolf Huber was a 16th-century Austrian painter and printmaker associated with the Danube School, known for his expressive religious works and detailed landscapes.
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C.
Fredric Steinkamp
Fredric Steinkamp was an American film editor best known for his acclaimed work on major Hollywood productions, including the Oscar-winning epic "Out of Africa."
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D.
Fred Karger
Fred Karger was an American musician and vocal coach best known for his work at major Hollywood studios and his long, on-and-off marriage to actress Jane Wyman.
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E.
Fred Schuler
Fred Schuler is a cinematographer best known for his work on films such as the 1980 comedy "Stir Crazy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American film
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20th-century American television ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Bill Macy ⓘ |
| birthName | Wolf Martin Garber ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1922-05-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-10-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Bill Macy ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying Walter Findlay on the 1970s sitcom Maude ⓘ |
| notableRole | Walter Findlay ⓘ |
| notableWork | Maude ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Maude ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Revere, Massachusetts, United States of America
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linked to:
Revere, Massachusetts
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| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Walter Findlay on Maude
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linked to:
Walter Findlay
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Samantha Harper ⓘ |
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: Wolf Martin Garber Description of subject: Wolf Martin Garber is the birth name of American actor Bill Macy, best known for his role as Walter Findlay on the 1970s sitcom "Maude."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Walter Findlay|Bill Macy