Regis Philbin
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Regis Philbin was an American television personality and talk show host best known for his long-running morning shows and for hosting the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Regis Philbin canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2984675 — 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: Regis Philbin Context triple: [Cardinal Hayes High School, notableAlumnus, Regis Philbin]
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A.
Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas was an American singer and television talk show host best known for "The Mike Douglas Show," a popular daytime program that ran from the 1960s through the early 1980s.
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B.
Jack Paar
Jack Paar was an influential American television host and comedian best known for transforming late-night TV during his tenure on The Tonight Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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C.
Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host best known for hosting "The Arsenio Hall Show" and for his roles in films like "Coming to America."
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D.
Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathie Lee Gifford is an American television host, singer, songwriter, and author best known for co-hosting the talk shows "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee" and the fourth hour of "Today."
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E.
Merv Griffin
Merv Griffin was an American television host, singer, and media mogul best known for creating the iconic game shows "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune."
- 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: Regis Philbin Target entity description: Regis Philbin was an American television personality and talk show host best known for his long-running morning shows and for hosting the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
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A.
Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas was an American singer and television talk show host best known for "The Mike Douglas Show," a popular daytime program that ran from the 1960s through the early 1980s.
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B.
Jack Paar
Jack Paar was an influential American television host and comedian best known for transforming late-night TV during his tenure on The Tonight Show in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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C.
Arsenio Hall
Arsenio Hall is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host best known for hosting "The Arsenio Hall Show" and for his roles in films like "Coming to America."
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D.
Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathie Lee Gifford is an American television host, singer, songwriter, and author best known for co-hosting the talk shows "Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee" and the fourth hour of "Today."
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E.
Merv Griffin
Merv Griffin was an American television host, singer, and media mogul best known for creating the iconic game shows "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Regis Philbin Description of subject: Regis Philbin was an American television personality and talk show host best known for his long-running morning shows and for hosting the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.