Max Wright
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Max Wright was an American actor best known for playing the father, Willie Tanner, on the 1980s sitcom "ALF."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Wright canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5188213 — 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: Max Wright Context triple: [All That Jazz, castMember, Max Wright]
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A.
Simon Wright
Simon Wright is an English hard rock and heavy metal drummer best known for his work with bands like AC/DC and Dio.
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B.
Brian Wright
Brian Wright is an NBA executive best known as the general manager responsible for overseeing basketball operations and roster decisions for the San Antonio Spurs.
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C.
Ben Wright
Ben Wright was a British-born American character actor best known for his voice work in classic Disney animated films, including a role in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians."
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D.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Blake Worsley
Blake Worsley is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle events and represented Canada at international competitions, including the Olympic Games.
- 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: Max Wright Target entity description: Max Wright was an American actor best known for playing the father, Willie Tanner, on the 1980s sitcom "ALF."
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A.
Simon Wright
Simon Wright is an English hard rock and heavy metal drummer best known for his work with bands like AC/DC and Dio.
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B.
Brian Wright
Brian Wright is an NBA executive best known as the general manager responsible for overseeing basketball operations and roster decisions for the San Antonio Spurs.
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C.
Ben Wright
Ben Wright was a British-born American character actor best known for his voice work in classic Disney animated films, including a role in "One Hundred and One Dalmatians."
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D.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Blake Worsley
Blake Worsley is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle events and represented Canada at international competitions, including the Olympic Games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
ALF
NERFINISHED
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All That Jazz NERFINISHED ⓘ Buffalo Bill NERFINISHED ⓘ Cheers NERFINISHED ⓘ Friends NERFINISHED ⓘ Misfits of Science NERFINISHED ⓘ Murphy Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Norm NERFINISHED ⓘ Reds NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shadow NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | George Edward Maxwell Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lymphoma ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Willie Tanner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-08-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-06-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1965 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Michigan ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName |
George
NERFINISHED
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Maxwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Willie Tanner on the sitcom ALF ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Max Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | ALF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Englewood, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Englewood, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Linda Ybarrondo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatreWork |
Broadway production of Ivanov
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Broadway production of The Crucible ⓘ Broadway production of Twelfth Night ⓘ |
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: Max Wright Description of subject: Max Wright was an American actor best known for playing the father, Willie Tanner, on the 1980s sitcom "ALF."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.