Alan Young
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Alan Young was a British-American actor and voice artist best known for playing Wilbur on the TV series "Mister Ed" and voicing Scrooge McDuck in numerous Disney productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Young canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7742393 — 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: Alan Young Context triple: [Mickey's Christmas Carol, narratedBy, Alan Young]
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A.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards was a prominent Canadian-American theatre director and educator best known for championing African-American playwrights, including directing the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s "Fences."
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B.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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C.
Van Alexander
Van Alexander was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer best known for his swing-era work and collaborations with prominent big band and jazz artists.
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D.
Orson Bean
Orson Bean was an American actor and comedian known for his prolific work in film, television, and theater, as well as his frequent appearances on game shows and talk shows.
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E.
Richard Kiley
Richard Kiley was an American stage and screen actor best known for his Tony Award–winning performance as Don Quixote in the original Broadway production of "Man of La Mancha."
- 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: Alan Young Target entity description: Alan Young was a British-American actor and voice artist best known for playing Wilbur on the TV series "Mister Ed" and voicing Scrooge McDuck in numerous Disney productions.
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A.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards was a prominent Canadian-American theatre director and educator best known for championing African-American playwrights, including directing the original Broadway production of August Wilson’s "Fences."
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B.
Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards is a character in the classic film and play "All About Eve," depicted as a talented and ambitious playwright closely involved in the theatrical world surrounding Margo Channing.
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C.
Van Alexander
Van Alexander was an American bandleader, arranger, and composer best known for his swing-era work and collaborations with prominent big band and jazz artists.
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D.
Orson Bean
Orson Bean was an American actor and comedian known for his prolific work in film, television, and theater, as well as his frequent appearances on game shows and talk shows.
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E.
Richard Kiley
Richard Kiley was an American stage and screen actor best known for his Tony Award–winning performance as Don Quixote in the original Broadway production of "Man of La Mancha."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ radio performer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
DuckTales
NERFINISHED
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Mickey’s Christmas Carol NERFINISHED ⓘ Mister Ed NERFINISHED ⓘ The Time Machine (1960 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1919-11-19 ⓘ |
| birthName | Angus Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | North Shields, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2016-05-19 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emmyAwardFor | The Alan Young Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Alan Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
DuckTales
NERFINISHED
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Mister Ed NERFINISHED ⓘ The Alan Young Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Time Machine (1960 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ radio host ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| parentalHeritage | Scottish parents ⓘ |
| portrayed | Filby in The Time Machine (1960 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse |
Mary Anne Grimes
NERFINISHED
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Mary Chipman NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia McCurdy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionRole | Wilbur Post in Mister Ed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceRole |
Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales
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Scrooge McDuck in Mickey’s Christmas Carol NERFINISHED ⓘ Scrooge McDuck in various Disney productions ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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radio ⓘ television ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–2010s ⓘ |
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: Alan Young Description of subject: Alan Young was a British-American actor and voice artist best known for playing Wilbur on the TV series "Mister Ed" and voicing Scrooge McDuck in numerous Disney productions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.