Moe Howard
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Moe Howard was an American comedian and actor best known as the short-tempered, bowl-cut leader of the slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Moe Howard canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4622870 — 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: Moe Howard Context triple: [Three Stooges, originalMembers, Moe Howard]
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A.
Zeppo Marx
Zeppo Marx was the youngest of the Marx Brothers, known for playing the straight man in their early films before leaving show business to become a successful engineer and inventor.
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B.
Harpo Marx
Harpo Marx was an American comedian and silent, harp-playing member of the Marx Brothers, famed for his wordless, anarchic performances in classic early 20th-century films.
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C.
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor best known as one half of the legendary film comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
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D.
Chico Marx
Chico Marx was an American comedian, actor, and pianist best known as one of the Marx Brothers, famed for his Italian accent persona and comic musical performances in classic early 20th-century films.
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E.
Joe Besser
Joe Besser was an American comedian and actor best known as one of the later members of The Three Stooges and for his distinctive whiny, childlike persona in film and television.
- 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: Moe Howard Target entity description: Moe Howard was an American comedian and actor best known as the short-tempered, bowl-cut leader of the slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges.
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A.
Zeppo Marx
Zeppo Marx was the youngest of the Marx Brothers, known for playing the straight man in their early films before leaving show business to become a successful engineer and inventor.
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B.
Harpo Marx
Harpo Marx was an American comedian and silent, harp-playing member of the Marx Brothers, famed for his wordless, anarchic performances in classic early 20th-century films.
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C.
Oliver Hardy
Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor best known as one half of the legendary film comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
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D.
Chico Marx
Chico Marx was an American comedian, actor, and pianist best known as one of the Marx Brothers, famed for his Italian accent persona and comic musical performances in classic early 20th-century films.
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E.
Joe Besser
Joe Besser was an American comedian and actor best known as one of the later members of The Three Stooges and for his distinctive whiny, childlike persona in film and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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American comedian ⓘ comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1910s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Moe
NERFINISHED
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Moe Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Moe of The Three Stooges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery, Culver City, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| characterTrait | short-tempered persona ⓘ |
| child |
Joan Howard
NERFINISHED
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Paul Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1897-06-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-05-04 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Horwitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Moses Harry Horwitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | slapstick comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Moses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairStyle | bowl cut ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1925 ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Three Stooges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFilm |
Disorder in the Court
NERFINISHED
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Men in Black ⓘ Punch Drunks NERFINISHED ⓘ Woman Haters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Three Stooges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInGroup | leader of The Three Stooges ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sibling |
Benjamin Horwitz
NERFINISHED
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Curly Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Irving Horwitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerome Horwitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Shemp Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Helen Schonberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Moe Howard Description of subject: Moe Howard was an American comedian and actor best known as the short-tempered, bowl-cut leader of the slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.