Irwin Corey
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Irwin Corey was an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his improvisational, stream-of-consciousness style and his long-running persona as “The World’s Foremost Authority.”
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irwin Corey canonical | 1 |
| Professor Irwin Corey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5382884 — 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: Irwin Corey Context triple: [Irwin, hasNotableBearer, Irwin Corey]
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A.
David Purviance
David Purviance was an early 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and reformer who played a key role in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.
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B.
Gil Doud
Gil Doud was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly war and action dramas.
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C.
Lionel Stander
Lionel Stander was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and memorable supporting roles in classic Hollywood films and later television.
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D.
Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and as the gruff but loving father in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
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E.
Hans Conried
Hans Conried was an American character actor and voice actor best known for his comedic and often villainous roles in mid-20th-century film, radio, television, and animation.
- 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: Irwin Corey Target entity description: Irwin Corey was an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his improvisational, stream-of-consciousness style and his long-running persona as “The World’s Foremost Authority.”
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A.
David Purviance
David Purviance was an early 19th-century American Presbyterian minister and reformer who played a key role in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.
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B.
Gil Doud
Gil Doud was an American screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century Hollywood films, particularly war and action dramas.
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C.
Lionel Stander
Lionel Stander was an American character actor known for his distinctive gravelly voice and memorable supporting roles in classic Hollywood films and later television.
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D.
Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and as the gruff but loving father in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
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E.
Hans Conried
Hans Conried was an American character actor and voice actor best known for his comedic and often villainous roles in mid-20th-century film, radio, television, and animation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Irwin Eli Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mount Carmel Cemetery, Queens, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-07-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-02-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish American ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Margaret Corey
NERFINISHED
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Richard Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later alternative comedians ⓘ |
| knownFor |
improvisational comedy
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persona as “The World’s Foremost Authority” ⓘ stream-of-consciousness stand-up style ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Irwin Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | The World’s Foremost Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAppearance | Broadway and nightclub performances ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
pseudo-academic, malaprop-filled speeches
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shaggy hair and ill-fitting tuxedo costume ⓘ |
| notableWork |
appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show
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appearances on The Tonight Show ⓘ film “Car Wash” NERFINISHED ⓘ film “How to Commit Marriage” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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social activist ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalActivity |
left-wing activism
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support for progressive causes ⓘ |
| religion | secular Jewish background ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| spouse | Fran Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleOfHumor |
absurdist monologues
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political humor ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1940s–2010s ⓘ |
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: Irwin Corey Description of subject: Irwin Corey was an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his improvisational, stream-of-consciousness style and his long-running persona as “The World’s Foremost Authority.”
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Professor Irwin Corey