Stiers
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Stiers is the surname of American actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on the television series M*A*S*H.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stiers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14152584 — 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: Stiers Context triple: [David Ogden Stiers, familyName, Stiers]
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A.
Scallabis
Scallabis was the ancient Roman name for the city now known as Santarém in central Portugal, an important settlement in the Roman province of Lusitania.
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B.
Tengster
Tengster is an alternative name for Taktser, a village in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibet best known as the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama.
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C.
Vargo
Vargo is a surname most notably associated with Ed Vargo, an American Major League Baseball umpire.
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D.
Stroobos
Stroobos is a small village in the northern Netherlands, situated on the border of Friesland and Groningen and known for its location along important waterways and canals.
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E.
Hölldobler
Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
- 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: Stiers Target entity description: Stiers is the surname of American actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for his role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on the television series M*A*S*H.
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A.
Scallabis
Scallabis was the ancient Roman name for the city now known as Santarém in central Portugal, an important settlement in the Roman province of Lusitania.
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B.
Tengster
Tengster is an alternative name for Taktser, a village in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibet best known as the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama.
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C.
Vargo
Vargo is a surname most notably associated with Ed Vargo, an American Major League Baseball umpire.
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D.
Stroobos
Stroobos is a small village in the northern Netherlands, situated on the border of Friesland and Groningen and known for its location along important waterways and canals.
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E.
Hölldobler
Hölldobler is a German surname most notably associated with Bert Hölldobler, a prominent behavioral ecologist and myrmecologist known for his research on ants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.