William Maher
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William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host best known for his satirical talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Maher canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8503643 — 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: William Maher Context triple: [Bill Maher, fullName, William Maher]
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A.
Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller is an American stand-up comedian, talk show host, and actor known for his acerbic wit and work on Saturday Night Live and various political commentary programs.
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B.
Bill Engvall
Bill Engvall is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and for his signature "Here's Your Sign" routine.
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C.
Dave Gregory
Dave Gregory is an English guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with the new wave band XTC.
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D.
Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy was an American comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on "Chappelle's Show" and for being the older brother of Eddie Murphy.
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E.
Steve Ross
Steve Ross was an American businessman best known for building Warner Communications into a media powerhouse and serving as a key architect of what became Time Warner.
- 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: William Maher Target entity description: William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host best known for his satirical talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
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A.
Dennis Miller
Dennis Miller is an American stand-up comedian, talk show host, and actor known for his acerbic wit and work on Saturday Night Live and various political commentary programs.
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B.
Bill Engvall
Bill Engvall is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known as a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and for his signature "Here's Your Sign" routine.
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C.
Dave Gregory
Dave Gregory is an English guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with the new wave band XTC.
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D.
Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy was an American comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on "Chappelle's Show" and for being the older brother of Eddie Murphy.
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E.
Steve Ross
Steve Ross was an American businessman best known for building Warner Communications into a media powerhouse and serving as a key architect of what became Time Warner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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human ⓘ political commentator ⓘ satirist ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | William Maher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-01-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Cornell University ⓘ |
| employer |
ABC
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Comedy Central NERFINISHED ⓘ HBO ⓘ |
| familyName | Maher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
political commentary
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stand-up comedy ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
observational comedy
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political satire ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasReligion | atheism ⓘ |
| hasSignature | Bill Maher signature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Bill Maher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bill Maher: #Adulting
NERFINISHED
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Bill Maher: Be More Cynical NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill Maher: But I’m Not Wrong NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill Maher: Live from D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill Maher: Live from Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Politically Incorrect NERFINISHED ⓘ Real Time with Bill Maher NERFINISHED ⓘ Religulous NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film producer ⓘ political commentator ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television presenter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | liberalism ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
host of Politically Incorrect
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host of Real Time with Bill Maher ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: William Maher Description of subject: William Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host best known for his satirical talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.