Brian Posehn
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Brian Posehn is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his deadpan delivery and roles in shows like "Mr. Show," "The Sarah Silverman Program," and various voice performances in animation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brian Posehn canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1198403 — 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: Brian Posehn Context triple: [The Five-Year Engagement, hasCastMember, Brian Posehn]
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Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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B.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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C.
Dee Bradley Baker
Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor renowned for his extensive work in animation and video games, particularly for his versatile character and creature voices in series like American Dad!, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and many others.
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D.
Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria is an American actor, comedian, and voice artist best known for voicing numerous characters on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
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E.
Kevin Preston
Kevin Preston is a musician best known as a member of the garage rock side project Foxboro Hot Tubs, associated with members of Green Day.
- 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: Brian Posehn Target entity description: Brian Posehn is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his deadpan delivery and roles in shows like "Mr. Show," "The Sarah Silverman Program," and various voice performances in animation.
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A.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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B.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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C.
Dee Bradley Baker
Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor renowned for his extensive work in animation and video games, particularly for his versatile character and creature voices in series like American Dad!, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and many others.
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D.
Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria is an American actor, comedian, and voice artist best known for voicing numerous characters on the animated television series "The Simpsons."
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E.
Kevin Preston
Kevin Preston is a musician best known as a member of the garage rock side project Foxboro Hot Tubs, associated with members of Green Day.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Brian Posehn Description of subject: Brian Posehn is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his deadpan delivery and roles in shows like "Mr. Show," "The Sarah Silverman Program," and various voice performances in animation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.