Neil Flynn
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Neil Flynn is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles as the Janitor on the sitcom "Scrubs" and as Mike Heck on the sitcom "The Middle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neil Flynn canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9578877 — 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: Neil Flynn Context triple: [The Janitor, portrayedBy, Neil Flynn]
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A.
Peter Flannery
Peter Flannery is a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential television drama work, including the acclaimed series "Our Friends in the North."
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B.
Brian Flanagan
Brian Flanagan is a fictional bartender and main character from the 1988 film "Cocktail," portrayed by Tom Cruise.
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C.
David Flynn
David Flynn is the fourth husband of English actress Jane Seymour, known primarily for his marriage to the Golden Globe–winning star of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."
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D.
Jack Donnelly
Jack Donnelly is a British actor best known for starring as Jason in the BBC fantasy-adventure series "Atlantis."
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E.
Jay O’Connor
Jay O’Connor is a child of John Jay O’Connor III, the husband of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
- 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: Neil Flynn Target entity description: Neil Flynn is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles as the Janitor on the sitcom "Scrubs" and as Mike Heck on the sitcom "The Middle."
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A.
Peter Flannery
Peter Flannery is a British playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential television drama work, including the acclaimed series "Our Friends in the North."
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B.
Brian Flanagan
Brian Flanagan is a fictional bartender and main character from the 1988 film "Cocktail," portrayed by Tom Cruise.
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C.
David Flynn
David Flynn is the fourth husband of English actress Jane Seymour, known primarily for his marriage to the Golden Globe–winning star of "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."
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D.
Jack Donnelly
Jack Donnelly is a British actor best known for starring as Jason in the BBC fantasy-adventure series "Atlantis."
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E.
Jay O’Connor
Jay O’Connor is a child of John Jay O’Connor III, the husband of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Baby's Day Out
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan of Arcadia NERFINISHED ⓘ Mean Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ My Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ Scrubs NERFINISHED ⓘ Seinfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ Smallville NERFINISHED ⓘ Surviving Jack NERFINISHED ⓘ That '70s Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Drew Carey Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fugitive NERFINISHED ⓘ The Middle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Janitor on Scrubs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Heck on The Middle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-11-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bradley University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wheaton Central High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Neil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role of Mike Heck on The Middle
ⓘ
role of the Janitor on Scrubs ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Improv Olympic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Second City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Neil Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Scrubs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Middle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| voiceActedIn |
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (TV series)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vixen (web series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–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: Neil Flynn Description of subject: Neil Flynn is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles as the Janitor on the sitcom "Scrubs" and as Mike Heck on the sitcom "The Middle."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Janitor