Michael Gross
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Michael Gross is an American actor best known for his role as Steven Keaton on the television sitcom "Family Ties" and as survivalist Burt Gummer in the "Tremors" film series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Gross canonical | 3 |
| Steven Keaton – Michael Gross | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9853997 — 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: Michael Gross Context triple: [Alan & Naomi, castMember, Michael Gross]
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A.
Michael C. Gross
Michael C. Gross was an American film producer and art director best known for his work on the Ghostbusters franchise and other popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Cliff Eidelman
Cliff Eidelman is an American composer best known for his orchestral film scores, including his acclaimed work on movies such as Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and other major Hollywood productions.
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C.
Phil Baran
Phil Baran is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in synthetic organic chemistry and the development of innovative methods for constructing complex natural products.
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D.
Mort Drucker
Mort Drucker was an American caricaturist and cartoonist best known for his influential, highly detailed movie and television parodies in Mad magazine.
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E.
Robert Rosner
Robert Rosner is an American theoretical astrophysicist known for his work on plasma physics and astrophysical fluid dynamics, as well as for his leadership roles in major scientific organizations.
- 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: Michael Gross Target entity description: Michael Gross is an American actor best known for his role as Steven Keaton on the television sitcom "Family Ties" and as survivalist Burt Gummer in the "Tremors" film series.
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A.
Michael C. Gross
Michael C. Gross was an American film producer and art director best known for his work on the Ghostbusters franchise and other popular comedies of the 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Cliff Eidelman
Cliff Eidelman is an American composer best known for his orchestral film scores, including his acclaimed work on movies such as Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and other major Hollywood productions.
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C.
Phil Baran
Phil Baran is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in synthetic organic chemistry and the development of innovative methods for constructing complex natural products.
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D.
Mort Drucker
Mort Drucker was an American caricaturist and cartoonist best known for his influential, highly detailed movie and television parodies in Mad magazine.
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E.
Robert Rosner
Robert Rosner is an American theoretical astrophysicist known for his work on plasma physics and astrophysical fluid dynamics, as well as for his leadership roles in major scientific organizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived | TV Land Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Burt Gummer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steven Keaton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Illinois at Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yale School of Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
horror ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0343448 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
playing Burt Gummer in the Tremors film series
ⓘ
playing Steven Keaton on Family Ties ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Gross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Burt Gummer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steven Keaton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ER
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Family Ties NERFINISHED ⓘ Guest appearances on various TV series ⓘ How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ Parkland NERFINISHED ⓘ Spin City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young and the Restless NERFINISHED ⓘ Tremors NERFINISHED ⓘ Tremors 2: Aftershocks NERFINISHED ⓘ Tremors 3: Back to Perfection NERFINISHED ⓘ Tremors 4: The Legend Begins NERFINISHED ⓘ Tremors 5: Bloodlines NERFINISHED ⓘ Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell NERFINISHED ⓘ Tremors: Shrieker Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of Family Ties
ⓘ
cast of Tremors ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Elza Bergeron 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: Michael Gross Description of subject: Michael Gross is an American actor best known for his role as Steven Keaton on the television sitcom "Family Ties" and as survivalist Burt Gummer in the "Tremors" film series.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Steven Keaton – Michael Gross