Mark Blum
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Mark Blum was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies like "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Crocodile Dundee."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Blum canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7837326 — 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: Mark Blum Context triple: [Crocodile Dundee, starring, Mark Blum]
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A.
Len Blum
Len Blum is a Canadian screenwriter known for his work on numerous comedy films, including the 2006 reboot of The Pink Panther.
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B.
Douglas Meyer
Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
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C.
Stephen Goldblatt
Stephen Goldblatt is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as Charlie Wilson's War, Batman Forever, and Lethal Weapon.
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D.
Michael Bluestein
Michael Bluestein is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the rock band Foreigner.
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E.
Mark Goldblatt
Mark Goldblatt is an American film editor best known for his work on high-profile action movies such as The Terminator, Predator 2, and Rambo: First Blood Part II.
- 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: Mark Blum Target entity description: Mark Blum was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies like "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Crocodile Dundee."
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A.
Len Blum
Len Blum is a Canadian screenwriter known for his work on numerous comedy films, including the 2006 reboot of The Pink Panther.
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B.
Douglas Meyer
Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
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C.
Stephen Goldblatt
Stephen Goldblatt is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as Charlie Wilson's War, Batman Forever, and Lethal Weapon.
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D.
Michael Bluestein
Michael Bluestein is an American keyboardist and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the rock band Foreigner.
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E.
Mark Goldblatt
Mark Goldblatt is an American film editor best known for his work on high-profile action movies such as The Terminator, Predator 2, and Rambo: First Blood Part II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
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Off-Broadway theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from COVID-19 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-05-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-03-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer |
New York theatre companies
NERFINISHED
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Playwrights Horizons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Blum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mark Blum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crocodile Dundee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Desperately Seeking Susan NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Mozart in the Jungle NERFINISHED ⓘ Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sopranos NERFINISHED ⓘ You (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Newark, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Janet Zarish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Crocodile Dundee
NERFINISHED
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Desperately Seeking Susan NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Mozart in the Jungle NERFINISHED ⓘ Succession NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sopranos NERFINISHED ⓘ You (TV series) 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: Mark Blum Description of subject: Mark Blum was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies like "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Crocodile Dundee."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Desperately Seeking Susan
subject surface form:
Desperately Seeking Susan