Terry Kiser
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Terry Kiser is an American actor best known for his comedic role as the titular corpse in the cult film "Weekend at Bernie's" and its sequel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terry Kiser canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3696295 — 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: Terry Kiser Context triple: [Carol & Company, hasCastMember, Terry Kiser]
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A.
Tony Kiser
Tony Kiser is an American theater producer and philanthropist known for his significant support of the performing arts, including having an Off-Broadway theater named in his honor.
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B.
Terry Kimple
Terry Kimple is a fictional character from the animated television series "The Cleveland Show," known as one of Cleveland Brown Jr.'s friends.
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C.
Terry Wilkerson
Terry Wilkerson is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the influential talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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D.
Terry Lyons
Terry Lyons is a prominent British mathematician known for his influential work in stochastic analysis and rough path theory.
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E.
Terry Linden
Terry Linden is a central character in the 2004 drama film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," whose strained marriage and emotional conflicts drive much of the story’s exploration of infidelity and dissatisfaction.
- 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: Terry Kiser Target entity description: Terry Kiser is an American actor best known for his comedic role as the titular corpse in the cult film "Weekend at Bernie's" and its sequel.
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A.
Tony Kiser
Tony Kiser is an American theater producer and philanthropist known for his significant support of the performing arts, including having an Off-Broadway theater named in his honor.
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B.
Terry Kimple
Terry Kimple is a fictional character from the animated television series "The Cleveland Show," known as one of Cleveland Brown Jr.'s friends.
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C.
Terry Wilkerson
Terry Wilkerson is a television producer best known for serving as an executive producer on the influential talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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D.
Terry Lyons
Terry Lyons is a prominent British mathematician known for his influential work in stochastic analysis and rough path theory.
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E.
Terry Linden
Terry Linden is a central character in the 2004 drama film "We Don't Live Here Anymore," whose strained marriage and emotional conflicts drive much of the story’s exploration of infidelity and dissatisfaction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Weekend at Bernie's
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Weekend at Bernie's II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Kiser ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy acting
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performing arts ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Terry ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | Weekend at Bernie's ⓘ |
| hasPartIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| hasRole |
film actor
ⓘ
television actor ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing a corpse-like character in Weekend at Bernie's ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Terry Kiser ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Weekend at Bernie's
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Weekend at Bernie's II ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| portrayed | Bernie Lomax ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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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: Terry Kiser Description of subject: Terry Kiser is an American actor best known for his comedic role as the titular corpse in the cult film "Weekend at Bernie's" and its sequel.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.