Frewer
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Frewer is a surname most notably associated with Canadian-American actor Matt Frewer, known for portraying the character Max Headroom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frewer canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9340903 — 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: Frewer Context triple: [Matt Frewer, familyName, Frewer]
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A.
Fadden
Fadden is an Australian federal electoral division in Queensland, represented in the House of Representatives.
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B.
Fadden
Fadden is a residential suburb in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory.
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C.
Foltz
Foltz is a surname most notably associated with Clara Shortridge Foltz, a pioneering American lawyer and women’s rights advocate.
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D.
Ficker
Ficker is the birth surname of renowned American ballerina Suzanne Farrell, one of the most celebrated muses of choreographer George Balanchine.
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E.
Finklea
Finklea is the birth surname of American actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals.
- 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: Frewer Target entity description: Frewer is a surname most notably associated with Canadian-American actor Matt Frewer, known for portraying the character Max Headroom.
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A.
Fadden
Fadden is an Australian federal electoral division in Queensland, represented in the House of Representatives.
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B.
Fadden
Fadden is a residential suburb in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory.
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C.
Foltz
Foltz is a surname most notably associated with Clara Shortridge Foltz, a pioneering American lawyer and women’s rights advocate.
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D.
Ficker
Ficker is the birth surname of renowned American ballerina Suzanne Farrell, one of the most celebrated muses of choreographer George Balanchine.
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E.
Finklea
Finklea is the birth surname of American actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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human ⓘ surname ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Max Headroom (American TV series)
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linked to:
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-01-04 ⓘ |
| familyName | Frewer ⓘ |
| givenName | Matt ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Dr. Leekie in Orphan Black
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linked to:
Dr. Leekie
Moloch in Watchmen (2009 film) ⓘ Russell Thompson Sr. in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ⓘ Trashcan Man in The Stand (1994 miniseries) ⓘ
linked to:
Stephen King’s The Stand (TV miniseries)
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| notableWork | Max Headroom ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| portrayed | Max Headroom ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Matt Frewer ⓘ |
| residence | Canada ⓘ |
| usedBy | Matt Frewer ⓘ |
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: Frewer Description of subject: Frewer is a surname most notably associated with Canadian-American actor Matt Frewer, known for portraying the character Max Headroom.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.