Korman
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Korman is a surname most famously associated with American comedic actor Harvey Korman, known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show and in Mel Brooks films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Korman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10548071 — 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: Korman Context triple: [Harvey Korman, familyName, Korman]
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A.
Kupferhammer
Kupferhammer is a locality within the town of Eberswalde in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.
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B.
Manó Kaminer
Manó Kaminer was the original Hungarian name of Michael Curtiz, the renowned film director best known for directing the classic movie "Casablanca."
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C.
Von Koren
Von Koren is the zealous zoologist and moral absolutist who serves as the central antagonist in Anton Chekhov’s novella "The Duel."
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D.
Daren Kagasoff
Daren Kagasoff is an American actor best known for his starring role as Ricky Underwood on the teen drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
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E.
Dani Karavan
Dani Karavan was an Israeli sculptor and environmental artist renowned for his large-scale site-specific memorials and public artworks that integrate landscape, architecture, and history.
- 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: Korman Target entity description: Korman is a surname most famously associated with American comedic actor Harvey Korman, known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show and in Mel Brooks films.
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A.
Kupferhammer
Kupferhammer is a locality within the town of Eberswalde in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.
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B.
Manó Kaminer
Manó Kaminer was the original Hungarian name of Michael Curtiz, the renowned film director best known for directing the classic movie "Casablanca."
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C.
Von Koren
Von Koren is the zealous zoologist and moral absolutist who serves as the central antagonist in Anton Chekhov’s novella "The Duel."
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D.
Daren Kagasoff
Daren Kagasoff is an American actor best known for his starring role as Ricky Underwood on the teen drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
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E.
Dani Karavan
Dani Karavan was an Israeli sculptor and environmental artist renowned for his large-scale site-specific memorials and public artworks that integrate landscape, architecture, and history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-02-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-05-29 ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Korman ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Harvey ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ Jewish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Harvey Korman ⓘ |
| knownFor | sketch comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blazing Saddles
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High Anxiety ⓘ History of the World, Part I ⓘ The Carol Burnett Show ⓘ The Pink Panther Strikes Again ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of The Carol Burnett Show ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spouse |
Deborah Korman
ⓘ
Donna Ehlert ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Carol Burnett
ⓘ
Mel Brooks ⓘ |
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: Korman Description of subject: Korman is a surname most famously associated with American comedic actor Harvey Korman, known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show and in Mel Brooks films.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Korman