Oswalt
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Oswalt is the surname of American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Patton Oswalt, known for his sharp observational humor and numerous film and television roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oswalt canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8651069 — 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: Oswalt Context triple: [Patton Oswalt, familyName, Oswalt]
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A.
Carlin
Carlin is a surname most famously associated with George Carlin, the influential American stand-up comedian and social critic.
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B.
Shandling
Shandling is the surname of Garry Shandling, the influential American stand-up comedian, actor, and creator of groundbreaking television comedies.
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C.
Paul Fry
Paul Fry is a literary scholar best known for his work in literary theory and criticism, including his influential teaching and writing on the subject at Yale University.
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D.
Ed Oates
Ed Oates is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Oracle Corporation, a pioneering company in relational database technology.
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E.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
- 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: Oswalt Target entity description: Oswalt is the surname of American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Patton Oswalt, known for his sharp observational humor and numerous film and television roles.
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A.
Carlin
Carlin is a surname most famously associated with George Carlin, the influential American stand-up comedian and social critic.
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B.
Shandling
Shandling is the surname of Garry Shandling, the influential American stand-up comedian, actor, and creator of groundbreaking television comedies.
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C.
Paul Fry
Paul Fry is a literary scholar best known for his work in literary theory and criticism, including his influential teaching and writing on the subject at Yale University.
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D.
Ed Oates
Ed Oates is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Oracle Corporation, a pioneering company in relational database technology.
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E.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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stand-up comedian ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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observational comedy ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Patton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Patton Oswalt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Oswalt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
numerous film roles
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numerous television roles ⓘ sharp observational humor ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Very Merry Christmas (stand-up specials and albums)
NERFINISHED
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Annihilation NERFINISHED ⓘ Ratatouille NERFINISHED ⓘ Talking for Clapping NERFINISHED ⓘ The King of Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ Young Adult NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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film actor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Remy in Ratatouille 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: Oswalt Description of subject: Oswalt is the surname of American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Patton Oswalt, known for his sharp observational humor and numerous film and television roles.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.