Marty Makary
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Marty Makary is an American surgeon, public health researcher, and author known for his work on healthcare transparency and patient safety.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marty Makary canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12958747 — 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: Marty Makary Context triple: [The Resident, basedOnAuthor, Marty Makary]
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A.
Larry Stenger
Larry Stenger is one of the original founders associated with the early formation of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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B.
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler is a Soviet spy posing as an American scientist who secretly aids the captive Amphibian Man in the film "The Shape of Water."
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C.
Dr. Chris Taub
Dr. Chris Taub is a plastic surgeon and diagnostician on the medical drama series "House," known for his personal insecurities, marital issues, and often cynical outlook.
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D.
John Weitz
John Weitz was a German-born American fashion designer and author known for his influential menswear designs and historical writings.
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E.
Dr. Mark Bruckner
Dr. Mark Bruckner is a central character in the musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," a psychiatrist who becomes fascinated with his patient’s apparent past-life memories and psychic abilities.
- 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: Marty Makary Target entity description: Marty Makary is an American surgeon, public health researcher, and author known for his work on healthcare transparency and patient safety.
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A.
Larry Stenger
Larry Stenger is one of the original founders associated with the early formation of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
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B.
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
Dr. Robert Hoffstetler is a Soviet spy posing as an American scientist who secretly aids the captive Amphibian Man in the film "The Shape of Water."
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C.
Dr. Chris Taub
Dr. Chris Taub is a plastic surgeon and diagnostician on the medical drama series "House," known for his personal insecurities, marital issues, and often cynical outlook.
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D.
John Weitz
John Weitz was a German-born American fashion designer and author known for his influential menswear designs and historical writings.
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E.
Dr. Mark Bruckner
Dr. Mark Bruckner is a central character in the musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," a psychiatrist who becomes fascinated with his patient’s apparent past-life memories and psychic abilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ public health researcher ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bucknell University
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Harvard School of Public Health ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Thomas Jefferson University ⓘ |
| employer |
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Johns Hopkins University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
health policy
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healthcare transparency ⓘ patient safety ⓘ public health ⓘ |
| genre |
healthcare
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non-fiction ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Doctor of Medicine
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Master of Public Health ⓘ |
| hasRole |
healthcare reform advocate
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public commentator on health policy ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It
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Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of healthcare price transparency
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critiques of U.S. healthcare costs ⓘ patient safety movement ⓘ research on medical errors ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medicalSpecialty |
surgery
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surgical oncology ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
public reporting of hospital outcomes
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use of transparency to improve healthcare quality ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It
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Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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professor ⓘ public health researcher ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
healthcare costs
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healthcare outcomes ⓘ medical error rates ⓘ quality of care ⓘ |
| workInstitution |
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ⓘ
linked to:
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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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: Marty Makary Description of subject: Marty Makary is an American surgeon, public health researcher, and author known for his work on healthcare transparency and patient safety.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Resident (TV series)