Larry Linville
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Larry Linville was an American actor best known for playing the inept and pompous Major Frank Burns on the television series M*A*S*H.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Linville canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10339203 — 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: Larry Linville Context triple: [Frank Burns, portrayedBy, Larry Linville]
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A.
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
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B.
Larry Kline
Larry Kline is the fictional mayor of Hawkins, Indiana, in the television series "Stranger Things," known for his self-serving and corrupt behavior during the events of the show’s third season.
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C.
David Winkler
David Winkler is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including entries in the Rocky/Creed franchise.
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D.
Michael-Leon Wooley
Michael-Leon Wooley is an American actor and voice actor best known for his rich baritone performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in animated features and Broadway productions.
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E.
Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin was a Canadian-American character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including his acclaimed portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe in the TV series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery."
- 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: Larry Linville Target entity description: Larry Linville was an American actor best known for playing the inept and pompous Major Frank Burns on the television series M*A*S*H.
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A.
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
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B.
Larry Kline
Larry Kline is the fictional mayor of Hawkins, Indiana, in the television series "Stranger Things," known for his self-serving and corrupt behavior during the events of the show’s third season.
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C.
David Winkler
David Winkler is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including entries in the Rocky/Creed franchise.
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D.
Michael-Leon Wooley
Michael-Leon Wooley is an American actor and voice actor best known for his rich baritone performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in animated features and Broadway productions.
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E.
Maury Chaykin
Maury Chaykin was a Canadian-American character actor known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including his acclaimed portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe in the TV series "A Nero Wolfe Mystery."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Larry Linville Description of subject: Larry Linville was an American actor best known for playing the inept and pompous Major Frank Burns on the television series M*A*S*H.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.