Maury Sterling
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Maury Sterling is an American actor best known for his role as surveillance expert Max in the television series "Homeland."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maury Sterling canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2458840 — 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: Maury Sterling Context triple: [Homeland, starring, Maury Sterling]
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A.
Joseph Ashburn
Joseph Ashburn was the second husband of American upholsterer Betsy Ross, who is widely associated with sewing the first United States flag.
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B.
Sam De Grasse
Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
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C.
Luke Murray
Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
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D.
Malcolm Waite
Malcolm Waite was an American silent film actor best remembered for his supporting roles in early Hollywood comedies, including Charlie Chaplin films.
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E.
Day O’Connor
Day O’Connor is the family name of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
- 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: Maury Sterling Target entity description: Maury Sterling is an American actor best known for his role as surveillance expert Max in the television series "Homeland."
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A.
Joseph Ashburn
Joseph Ashburn was the second husband of American upholsterer Betsy Ross, who is widely associated with sewing the first United States flag.
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B.
Sam De Grasse
Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
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C.
Luke Murray
Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
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D.
Malcolm Waite
Malcolm Waite was an American silent film actor best remembered for his supporting roles in early Hollywood comedies, including Charlie Chaplin films.
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E.
Day O’Connor
Day O’Connor is the family name of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Alphas
ⓘ
Coherence ⓘ Homeland (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Homeland
Smokin' Aces ⓘ |
| characterRole | Max ⓘ |
| characterRoleInWork | Max in Homeland ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sterling ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | drama television series ⓘ |
| givenName | Maury ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0827542 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Maury Sterling ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying surveillance expert Max in Homeland ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alphas
ⓘ
Coherence ⓘ Homeland ⓘ Smokin' Aces ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Homeland (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Homeland
|
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Alexis Sterling ⓘ |
| workType | television ⓘ |
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: Maury Sterling Description of subject: Maury Sterling is an American actor best known for his role as surveillance expert Max in the television series "Homeland."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.