Harry Shearer
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Harry Shearer is an American actor, comedian, writer, musician, and satirist best known for his extensive voice work on "The Simpsons" and his role in the mockumentary film "This Is Spinal Tap."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Shearer canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9742041 — 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: Harry Shearer Context triple: [Chicken Little (2005 film), voiceActor, Harry Shearer]
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A.
Chris Elliott
Chris Elliott is an American actor and comedian known for his offbeat roles in film and television, including his supporting role in the comedy classic "Groundhog Day."
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B.
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman was a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and the sitcom "NewsRadio."
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C.
Martin Short
Martin Short is a Canadian-American comedian and actor renowned for his energetic characters and work on sketch comedy shows, films, and Broadway.
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D.
Will Murray
Will Murray is an American writer best known for his extensive work continuing classic pulp fiction series, particularly the Doc Savage novels.
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E.
Michael McKean
Michael McKean is an American actor, comedian, and musician best known for his roles in "This Is Spinal Tap," the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," and the television series "Better Call Saul."
- 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: Harry Shearer Target entity description: Harry Shearer is an American actor, comedian, writer, musician, and satirist best known for his extensive voice work on "The Simpsons" and his role in the mockumentary film "This Is Spinal Tap."
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A.
Chris Elliott
Chris Elliott is an American actor and comedian known for his offbeat roles in film and television, including his supporting role in the comedy classic "Groundhog Day."
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B.
Phil Hartman
Phil Hartman was a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and writer best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and the sitcom "NewsRadio."
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C.
Martin Short
Martin Short is a Canadian-American comedian and actor renowned for his energetic characters and work on sketch comedy shows, films, and Broadway.
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D.
Will Murray
Will Murray is an American writer best known for his extensive work continuing classic pulp fiction series, particularly the Doc Savage novels.
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E.
Michael McKean
Michael McKean is an American actor, comedian, and musician best known for his roles in "This Is Spinal Tap," the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley," and the television series "Better Call Saul."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ satirist ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-12-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| employer | The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRadioShow | Le Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| memberOf | Spinal Tap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Harry Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Mighty Wind
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Best in Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ The Simpsons Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is Spinal Tap NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ musician ⓘ satirist ⓘ voice actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Derek Smalls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| spouse | Judith Owen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceRole |
Dr. Julius Hibbert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kent Brockman NERFINISHED ⓘ Lenny Leonard NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ Ned Flanders NERFINISHED ⓘ Otto Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ Principal Seymour Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ Rainier Wolfcastle NERFINISHED ⓘ Reverend Timothy Lovejoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Waylon Smithers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Saturday Night Live
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Credibility Gap 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: Harry Shearer Description of subject: Harry Shearer is an American actor, comedian, writer, musician, and satirist best known for his extensive voice work on "The Simpsons" and his role in the mockumentary film "This Is Spinal Tap."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chicken Little (2005 film)