Conan
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Conan is an Irish-American television host, comedian, writer, and producer best known for hosting late-night talk shows such as "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "Conan."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Conan canonical | 9 |
| Conan (TV series) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3415274 — 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: Conan Context triple: [Conan O’Brien, givenName, Conan]
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A.
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 fantasy adventure film that helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger to stardom through his portrayal of the iconic sword-and-sorcery hero.
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B.
Conan the Destroyer
Conan the Destroyer is a 1984 fantasy adventure film and the second installment in the Conan series, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the sword-wielding barbarian hero.
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C.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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D.
Mae Mordabito
Mae Mordabito is a brash, charismatic center fielder and dancer in the Rockford Peaches lineup in the film "A League of Their Own."
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E.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
- 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: Conan Target entity description: Conan is an Irish-American television host, comedian, writer, and producer best known for hosting late-night talk shows such as "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "Conan."
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A.
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 fantasy adventure film that helped launch Arnold Schwarzenegger to stardom through his portrayal of the iconic sword-and-sorcery hero.
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B.
Conan the Destroyer
Conan the Destroyer is a 1984 fantasy adventure film and the second installment in the Conan series, featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the sword-wielding barbarian hero.
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C.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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D.
Mae Mordabito
Mae Mordabito is a brash, charismatic center fielder and dancer in the Rockford Peaches lineup in the film "A League of Their Own."
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E.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish-American person
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comedian ⓘ television host ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1963-04-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 2002-01-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brookline High School
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer |
NBC
ⓘ
TBS ⓘ |
| endTime |
2010-02-20
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2021-06-24 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Irish-American ⓘ |
| familyName | O'Brien ⓘ |
| founded |
Conaco
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Team Coco ⓘ |
| fullName |
Conan O’Brien
ⓘ
surface form:
Conan Christopher O'Brien
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| genre | late-night talk show ⓘ |
| givenName | Conan self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hairColor | red ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Beckett O'Brien
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Neve O'Brien ⓘ |
| hasPodcast |
Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend (podcast)
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surface form:
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
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| hosted |
Conan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Late Night with Conan O’Brien ⓘ
surface form:
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show ⓘ
surface form:
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
|
| knownFor |
Conan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Late Night with Conan O’Brien ⓘ
surface form:
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show ⓘ
surface form:
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
The Harvard Lampoon
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surface form:
Harvard Lampoon
|
| notableWork |
Clueless Gamer segment
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surface form:
Clueless Gamer segments
remote segments on Late Night with Conan O'Brien ⓘ |
| occupation |
comedian
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television host ⓘ television producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| parent |
Ruth O'Brien
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Thomas Francis O'Brien ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States of America
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surface form:
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Liza Powel O’Brien
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surface form:
Liza Powel O'Brien
|
| startTime |
1993-09-13
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2010-11-08 ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
Saturday Night Live
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The Simpsons ⓘ |
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: Conan Description of subject: Conan is an Irish-American television host, comedian, writer, and producer best known for hosting late-night talk shows such as "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "Conan."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Conan (TV series)
this entity surface form:
Conan (TV series)