Ratzenberger
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Ratzenberger is the surname of American actor and voice artist John Ratzenberger, best known for his role as Cliff Clavin on "Cheers" and numerous Pixar film voice roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ratzenberger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9872867 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ratzenberger Context triple: [John Ratzenberger, familyName, Ratzenberger]
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A.
Daniel Stiepleman
Daniel Stiepleman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the biographical legal drama film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex."
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B.
Michael Blodgett
Michael Blodgett was an American actor, screenwriter, and producer known for his work in film and television from the late 1960s onward.
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C.
Cullen Landis
Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor prominent in the 1910s and 1920s, known for his boy-next-door roles in numerous dramas and comedies.
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D.
Gil Stratton
Gil Stratton was an American character actor and sportscaster known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, as well as his long career in Los Angeles sports broadcasting.
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E.
Bo Kimble
Bo Kimble is a former American college basketball star best known for leading Loyola Marymount University's high-scoring teams in the late 1980s and for his emotional tribute free throws shot left-handed in honor of teammate Hank Gathers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ratzenberger Target entity description: Ratzenberger is the surname of American actor and voice artist John Ratzenberger, best known for his role as Cliff Clavin on "Cheers" and numerous Pixar film voice roles.
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A.
Daniel Stiepleman
Daniel Stiepleman is an American screenwriter best known for writing the biographical legal drama film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, "On the Basis of Sex."
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B.
Michael Blodgett
Michael Blodgett was an American actor, screenwriter, and producer known for his work in film and television from the late 1960s onward.
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C.
Cullen Landis
Cullen Landis was an American silent film actor prominent in the 1910s and 1920s, known for his boy-next-door roles in numerous dramas and comedies.
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D.
Gil Stratton
Gil Stratton was an American character actor and sportscaster known for his roles in mid-20th-century films and television, as well as his long career in Los Angeles sports broadcasting.
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E.
Bo Kimble
Bo Kimble is a former American college basketball star best known for leading Loyola Marymount University's high-scoring teams in the late 1980s and for his emotional tribute free throws shot left-handed in honor of teammate Hank Gathers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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comedian ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeInIndustry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| characterOccupation | mail carrier ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-04-06 ⓘ |
| employerOfCharacter | United States Postal Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | John Dezso Ratzenberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Ratzenberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of Cliff Clavin on Cheers
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recurring voice roles in Pixar films ⓘ |
| notableRole | Cliff Clavin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Bug's Life
NERFINISHED
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Brave NERFINISHED ⓘ Cars NERFINISHED ⓘ Cars 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Cars 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Cheers NERFINISHED ⓘ Coco NERFINISHED ⓘ Finding Nemo NERFINISHED ⓘ Inside Out NERFINISHED ⓘ Monsters, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ Ratatouille NERFINISHED ⓘ The Incredibles NERFINISHED ⓘ Toy Story NERFINISHED ⓘ Toy Story 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Toy Story 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Toy Story 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Up NERFINISHED ⓘ WALL·E NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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producer ⓘ voice artist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voicedCharacter |
Construction Foreman Tom
NERFINISHED
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Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamm NERFINISHED ⓘ John (human passenger) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mack NERFINISHED ⓘ Mustafa NERFINISHED ⓘ P.T. Flea NERFINISHED ⓘ The Underminer NERFINISHED ⓘ Yeti NERFINISHED ⓘ school of fish ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ratzenberger Description of subject: Ratzenberger is the surname of American actor and voice artist John Ratzenberger, best known for his role as Cliff Clavin on "Cheers" and numerous Pixar film voice roles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.