Ken Marino
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Ken Marino is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director known for his work in cult TV comedies such as The State, Party Down, and Wet Hot American Summer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ken Marino canonical | 27 |
| Jon Stewart | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8129788 — 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: Ken Marino Context triple: [Party Down, hasCastMember, Ken Marino]
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A.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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B.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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C.
Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as producer Pete Hornberger on the television series "30 Rock."
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D.
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is an American comedian, writer, producer, and former host of "The Daily Show," widely known for his sharp political satire and influence on contemporary news comedy.
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E.
Kevin Maher
Kevin Maher is an English former professional footballer and current football manager best known for his long association with Southend United.
- 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: Ken Marino Target entity description: Ken Marino is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director known for his work in cult TV comedies such as The State, Party Down, and Wet Hot American Summer.
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A.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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B.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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C.
Scott Adsit
Scott Adsit is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as producer Pete Hornberger on the television series "30 Rock."
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D.
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is an American comedian, writer, producer, and former host of "The Daily Show," widely known for his sharp political satire and influence on contemporary news comedy.
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E.
Kevin Maher
Kevin Maher is an English former professional footballer and current football manager best known for his long association with Southend United.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
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Childrens Hospital ⓘ Party Down ⓘ The State ⓘ Veronica Mars ⓘ Wet Hot American Summer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
Burning Love
ⓘ
How to Be a Latin Lover ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
ⓘ
Tisch School of the Arts ⓘ
linked to:
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
|
| familyName | Marino ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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sketch comedy ⓘ television comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Ken ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Riley Ken'ichi Marino
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Ruby Marino ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The State ⓘ |
| name | Ken Marino ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Monday
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine ⓘ Burning Love ⓘ Childrens Hospital ⓘ Marry Me ⓘ Party Down ⓘ Role Models ⓘ The Other Two ⓘ The State ⓘ Veronica Mars ⓘ Wanderlust ⓘ Wet Hot American Summer ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ director ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Erica Oyama ⓘ |
| wrote | Burning Love ⓘ |
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: Ken Marino Description of subject: Ken Marino is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director known for his work in cult TV comedies such as The State, Party Down, and Wet Hot American Summer.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The State (sketch comedy troupe)
subject linked to:
The State (sketch comedy troupe)