Norm Macdonald
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film actor
human
podcast host
screenwriter
stand-up comedian
talk show host
television actor
television writer
Norm Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for his deadpan delivery, his tenure on Saturday Night Live, and his influential, offbeat approach to comedy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Norm Macdonald canonical | 8 |
| Norman Gene Macdonald | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3239660 — 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: Norm Macdonald Context triple: [Dr. Dolittle (1998 film), featuresVoice, Norm Macdonald]
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Lee Mack
Lee Mack is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer best known for his quick-fire wit and starring role in the sitcom "Not Going Out."
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Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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C.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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Jim Gaffigan
Jim Gaffigan is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his observational, family-friendly humor and roles in both film and television.
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E.
Drew Carey
Drew Carey is an American comedian, actor, and game show host best known for "The Drew Carey Show" and hosting "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Price Is Right."
- 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: Norm Macdonald Target entity description: Norm Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for his deadpan delivery, his tenure on Saturday Night Live, and his influential, offbeat approach to comedy.
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A.
Lee Mack
Lee Mack is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and writer best known for his quick-fire wit and starring role in the sitcom "Not Going Out."
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B.
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer known for his sharp observational humor and roles in film and television, including voicing Remy in Pixar's "Ratatouille."
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C.
David Cross
David Cross is an American comedian and actor known for his stand-up work, his role in the sketch series "Mr. Show," and his portrayal of Tobias Fünke in the television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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D.
Jim Gaffigan
Jim Gaffigan is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his observational, family-friendly humor and roles in both film and television.
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E.
Drew Carey
Drew Carey is an American comedian, actor, and game show host best known for "The Drew Carey Show" and hosting "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "The Price Is Right."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Norm Macdonald Description of subject: Norm Macdonald was a Canadian stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for his deadpan delivery, his tenure on Saturday Night Live, and his influential, offbeat approach to comedy.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Norman Gene Macdonald