Matthau
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Matthau is a surname most famously associated with American actor Walter Matthau and his family, including his son, director Charles Matthau.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthau canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8577867 — 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: Matthau Context triple: [Charles Matthau, familyName, Matthau]
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A.
Menzel Horr
Menzel Horr is a town in northeastern Tunisia known for its agricultural surroundings and its location within the coastal Nabeul region.
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B.
Matta
Matta is a surname most prominently associated with Thad Matta, a successful American college basketball coach known for his tenures at Xavier and Ohio State.
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C.
Matta
Matta is a town located in Pakistan’s Swat District, known for its agricultural surroundings and scenic mountainous landscape.
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D.
Матуа
Матуа — это вулканический остров в центральной части Курильской гряды, известный своим действующим вулканом Сарычева и стратегическим военным значением.
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E.
Martis
Martis is a small town and comune in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy.
- 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: Matthau Target entity description: Matthau is a surname most famously associated with American actor Walter Matthau and his family, including his son, director Charles Matthau.
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A.
Menzel Horr
Menzel Horr is a town in northeastern Tunisia known for its agricultural surroundings and its location within the coastal Nabeul region.
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B.
Matta
Matta is a town located in Pakistan’s Swat District, known for its agricultural surroundings and scenic mountainous landscape.
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C.
Matta
Matta is a surname most prominently associated with Thad Matta, a successful American college basketball coach known for his tenures at Xavier and Ohio State.
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D.
Матуа
Матуа — это вулканический остров в центральной части Курильской гряды, известный своим действующим вулканом Сарычева и стратегическим военным значением.
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E.
Martis
Martis is a small town and comune in the Gallura region of northern Sardinia, Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ surname ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| child | Charles Matthau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1920-10-01
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1962-12-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2000-07-01 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Matthau
NERFINISHED
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Matthau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Walter Matthau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Charles
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Walter ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| mother | Carol Marcus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Doin' Time on Planet Earth
NERFINISHED
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Grumpier Old Men NERFINISHED ⓘ Grumpy Old Men NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fortune Cookie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Grass Harp (1995 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Odd Couple NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sunshine Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actor ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York City
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New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Santa Monica, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender |
male
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male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carol Marcus
NERFINISHED
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Grace Geraldine Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Charles Matthau
NERFINISHED
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Walter Matthau 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: Matthau Description of subject: Matthau is a surname most famously associated with American actor Walter Matthau and his family, including his son, director Charles Matthau.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.