Cornelius Crane Chase
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Cornelius Crane Chase, better known as Chevy Chase, is an American comedian and actor famed for his work on Saturday Night Live and in films like National Lampoon’s Vacation and Caddyshack.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelius Crane Chase canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9281679 — 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: Cornelius Crane Chase Context triple: [Chevy Chase, birthName, Cornelius Crane Chase]
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A.
Frederick Crane
Frederick Crane is the son of psychiatrist Frasier Crane in the television series "Frasier" and its related "Cheers" universe.
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B.
William G. Chase
William G. Chase was an American psychologist and cognitive scientist known for his influential research on expertise and human memory, particularly in collaboration with Herbert A. Simon.
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C.
Frank Crane
Frank Crane was an American Presbyterian minister, newspaper columnist, and popular early 20th-century essayist known for his inspirational writings and aphorisms.
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D.
Carl Hovey
Carl Hovey was an American magazine editor and writer active in the early 20th century, known for his work in literary and popular periodicals.
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E.
Charles Richard Crane
Charles Richard Crane was an American businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist known for his involvement in early 20th-century U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
- 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: Cornelius Crane Chase Target entity description: Cornelius Crane Chase, better known as Chevy Chase, is an American comedian and actor famed for his work on Saturday Night Live and in films like National Lampoon’s Vacation and Caddyshack.
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A.
Frederick Crane
Frederick Crane is the son of psychiatrist Frasier Crane in the television series "Frasier" and its related "Cheers" universe.
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B.
William G. Chase
William G. Chase was an American psychologist and cognitive scientist known for his influential research on expertise and human memory, particularly in collaboration with Herbert A. Simon.
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C.
Frank Crane
Frank Crane was an American Presbyterian minister, newspaper columnist, and popular early 20th-century essayist known for his inspirational writings and aphorisms.
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D.
Carl Hovey
Carl Hovey was an American magazine editor and writer active in the early 20th century, known for his work in literary and popular periodicals.
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E.
Charles Richard Crane
Charles Richard Crane was an American businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist known for his involvement in early 20th-century U.S. foreign policy, especially in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1967 ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-10-08 ⓘ |
| employer | Saturday Night Live NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of English descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Saturday Night Live cast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Clark Griswold
NERFINISHED
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Pierce Hawthorne NERFINISHED ⓘ Ty Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Caddyshack
NERFINISHED
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Community NERFINISHED ⓘ Fletch NERFINISHED ⓘ Funny Farm NERFINISHED ⓘ National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ National Lampoon’s European Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ National Lampoon’s Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ Spies Like Us NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Amigos NERFINISHED ⓘ Vegas Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ Weekend Update (Saturday Night Live) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York (state) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jacqueline Carlin
NERFINISHED
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Jayni Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ Suzanne Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Chevy Chase 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: Cornelius Crane Chase Description of subject: Cornelius Crane Chase, better known as Chevy Chase, is an American comedian and actor famed for his work on Saturday Night Live and in films like National Lampoon’s Vacation and Caddyshack.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.