Paul Lynde
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Paul Lynde was an American comedian and character actor known for his flamboyant wit, distinctive voice, and frequent appearances on television shows like "Bewitched" and "Hollywood Squares."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Lynde canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5590880 — 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: Paul Lynde Context triple: [Charlotte's Web (1973 film), voiceActor, Paul Lynde]
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A.
Edgar Bergen
Edgar Bergen was a famed American ventriloquist and radio performer best known for his dummy characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
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B.
Joey Bishop
Joey Bishop was an American comedian, actor, and talk show host best known as a core member of the Rat Pack alongside Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford.
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C.
Jim Backus
Jim Backus was an American actor and voice artist best known for voicing the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and portraying Thurston Howell III on the television series "Gilligan's Island."
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D.
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters was an influential American comedian and actor renowned for his improvisational genius, character work, and pioneering impact on modern stand-up and sketch comedy.
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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: Paul Lynde Target entity description: Paul Lynde was an American comedian and character actor known for his flamboyant wit, distinctive voice, and frequent appearances on television shows like "Bewitched" and "Hollywood Squares."
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A.
Edgar Bergen
Edgar Bergen was a famed American ventriloquist and radio performer best known for his dummy characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd.
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B.
Joey Bishop
Joey Bishop was an American comedian, actor, and talk show host best known as a core member of the Rat Pack alongside Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford.
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C.
Jim Backus
Jim Backus was an American actor and voice artist best known for voicing the cartoon character Mr. Magoo and portraying Thurston Howell III on the television series "Gilligan's Island."
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D.
Jonathan Winters
Jonathan Winters was an influential American comedian and actor renowned for his improvisational genius, character work, and pioneering impact on modern stand-up and sketch comedy.
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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 |
character actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Amity Cemetery, Amity, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-06-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-01-10 ⓘ |
| distinctiveFeature | distinctive voice ⓘ |
| education | Northwestern University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lynde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy
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film ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| film |
Beach Blanket Bingo
NERFINISHED
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlotte's Web (1973 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Send Me No Flowers NERFINISHED ⓘ Under the Yum Yum Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Paul Edward Lynde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Bewitched
NERFINISHED
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Bye Bye Birdie NERFINISHED ⓘ Hollywood Squares NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paul Lynde Halloween Special NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paul Lynde Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Perils of Pauline (1967 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Harry MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie
NERFINISHED
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Uncle Arthur on Bewitched NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageWork | Bye Bye Birdie (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | flamboyant wit ⓘ |
| televisionShow |
Bewitched
NERFINISHED
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Hollywood Squares NERFINISHED ⓘ I Dream of Jeannie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dean Martin Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Munsters NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Temperatures Rising Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paul Lynde Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceRole | Templeton the Rat in Charlotte's Web 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: Paul Lynde Description of subject: Paul Lynde was an American comedian and character actor known for his flamboyant wit, distinctive voice, and frequent appearances on television shows like "Bewitched" and "Hollywood Squares."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.