Michael Urie
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Michael Urie is an American actor best known for his role as Marc St. James on the television series "Ugly Betty" and for his extensive work in theater and film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Urie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317641 — 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: Michael Urie Context triple: [The Decoy Bride, castMember, Michael Urie]
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A.
Rob Corddry
Rob Corddry is an American actor and comedian best known for his work on "The Daily Show" and in films like "Hot Tub Time Machine."
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B.
Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
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C.
Ike Barinholtz
Ike Barinholtz is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director known for his work on the TV series "The Mindy Project" and films such as "Neighbors" and "Blockers."
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D.
Nick Kroll
Nick Kroll is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer known for his sketch series "Kroll Show," his work on "The League," and co-creating and voicing characters in the animated series "Big Mouth."
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E.
Glenn Howerton
Glenn Howerton is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring as Dennis Reynolds on the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
- 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: Michael Urie Target entity description: Michael Urie is an American actor best known for his role as Marc St. James on the television series "Ugly Betty" and for his extensive work in theater and film.
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A.
Rob Corddry
Rob Corddry is an American actor and comedian best known for his work on "The Daily Show" and in films like "Hot Tub Time Machine."
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B.
Joel McHale
Joel McHale is an American actor, comedian, and television host best known for leading the satirical series "The Soup" and starring on the sitcom "Community."
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C.
Ike Barinholtz
Ike Barinholtz is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director known for his work on the TV series "The Mindy Project" and films such as "Neighbors" and "Blockers."
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D.
Nick Kroll
Nick Kroll is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer known for his sketch series "Kroll Show," his work on "The League," and co-creating and voicing characters in the animated series "Big Mouth."
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E.
Glenn Howerton
Glenn Howerton is an American actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring as Dennis Reynolds on the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ producer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| alumniOf | Juilliard School Drama Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award
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Lucille Lortel Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1980-08-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Juilliard School ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Italian American
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Scottish American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Urie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Marc St. James on Ugly Betty ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Urie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Critics' Choice Television Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Buyer & Cellar
NERFINISHED
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Grand Horizons NERFINISHED ⓘ Partners NERFINISHED ⓘ Shrinking NERFINISHED ⓘ Single All the Way NERFINISHED ⓘ The Government Inspector NERFINISHED ⓘ Torch Song NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugly Betty NERFINISHED ⓘ Ugly Betty: Marc St. James role ⓘ Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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producer ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| partner | Ryan Spahn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedOffBroadway | yes ⓘ |
| performedOnBroadway | yes ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Marc St. James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacterIn | Marc St. James in Ugly Betty ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | queer ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 2000s–present ⓘ |
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: Michael Urie Description of subject: Michael Urie is an American actor best known for his role as Marc St. James on the television series "Ugly Betty" and for his extensive work in theater and film.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Decoy Bride