Taran Killam
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Taran Killam is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his work as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" and roles in various film and television comedies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Taran Killam canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8947061 — 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: Taran Killam Context triple: [Cobie Smulders, spouse, Taran Killam]
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A.
Joel McKinnon Miller
Joel McKinnon Miller is an American character actor best known for playing the affable Detective Norm Scully on the television comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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B.
Rhys Darby
Rhys Darby is a New Zealand comedian and actor known for his eccentric, high-energy roles in film and television, including prominent parts in Flight of the Conchords and various Hollywood comedies.
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C.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
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D.
Zach Woods
Zach Woods is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "The Office," "Silicon Valley," and "Avenue 5."
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E.
Edd Kalehoff
Edd Kalehoff is an American composer and producer best known for creating iconic television theme and news music for major U.S. networks.
- 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: Taran Killam Target entity description: Taran Killam is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his work as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" and roles in various film and television comedies.
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A.
Joel McKinnon Miller
Joel McKinnon Miller is an American character actor best known for playing the affable Detective Norm Scully on the television comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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B.
Rhys Darby
Rhys Darby is a New Zealand comedian and actor known for his eccentric, high-energy roles in film and television, including prominent parts in Flight of the Conchords and various Hollywood comedies.
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C.
Marc Tarpenning
Marc Tarpenning is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, Inc.
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D.
Zach Woods
Zach Woods is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on television series such as "The Office," "Silicon Valley," and "Avenue 5."
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E.
Edd Kalehoff
Edd Kalehoff is an American composer and producer best known for creating iconic television theme and news music for major U.S. networks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
12 Years a Slave
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grown Ups 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ MADtv NERFINISHED ⓘ Night School NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Night Live NERFINISHED ⓘ Single Parents NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuck in the Suburbs NERFINISHED ⓘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Amanda Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Heat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMemberOf |
MADtv
NERFINISHED
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Saturday Night Live NERFINISHED ⓘ The Amanda Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1982-04-01 ⓘ |
| directorOf | Killing Gunther NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Los Angeles County High School for the Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Killam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Taran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | daughter (with Cobie Smulders) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 2012 ⓘ |
| name | Taran Killam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ television writer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Culver City, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| spouse | Cobie Smulders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writerOf | Killing Gunther NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Taran Killam Description of subject: Taran Killam is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his work as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" and roles in various film and television comedies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.