Corky St. Clair
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Corky St. Clair is the flamboyant, small-town community theater director portrayed by Christopher Guest in the mockumentary film "Waiting for Guffman."
All labels observed (1)
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| Corky St. Clair canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14455288 — 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: Corky St. Clair Context triple: [Waiting for Guffman, titleCharacter, Corky St. Clair]
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A.
Corky Withers
Corky Withers is the psychologically troubled ventriloquist at the center of the horror film "Magic," whose increasingly unstable relationship with his dummy drives the story's suspense and terror.
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B.
Denny Love
Denny Love is an American actor best known for his role as Chip "The Colonel" Martin in the television miniseries adaptation of John Green's novel "Looking for Alaska."
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C.
Lenny Cooke
Lenny Cooke is a 2013 documentary film chronicling the rise and unfulfilled NBA dreams of high school basketball phenom Lenny Cooke, co-directed by Josh and Benny Safdie.
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Terry Gilkyson
Terry Gilkyson was an American folk singer and songwriter best known for penning classic Disney songs, including "The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book.
- 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: Corky St. Clair Target entity description: Corky St. Clair is the flamboyant, small-town community theater director portrayed by Christopher Guest in the mockumentary film "Waiting for Guffman."
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A.
Corky Withers
Corky Withers is the psychologically troubled ventriloquist at the center of the horror film "Magic," whose increasingly unstable relationship with his dummy drives the story's suspense and terror.
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B.
Denny Love
Denny Love is an American actor best known for his role as Chip "The Colonel" Martin in the television miniseries adaptation of John Green's novel "Looking for Alaska."
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C.
Lenny Cooke
Lenny Cooke is a 2013 documentary film chronicling the rise and unfulfilled NBA dreams of high school basketball phenom Lenny Cooke, co-directed by Josh and Benny Safdie.
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D.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
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E.
Terry Gilkyson
Terry Gilkyson was an American folk singer and songwriter best known for penning classic Disney songs, including "The Bare Necessities" from The Jungle Book.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.