Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy is a Ukrainian-American professional ballroom dancer and choreographer best known for his long-running role as a pro on the TV competition show "Dancing with the Stars."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maksim Chmerkovskiy canonical | 14 |
| Chmerkovskiy | 1 |
| Maksim Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy | 1 |
| Maksim Chmerkovskiy (husband) | 1 |
| Shai Aleksander Chmerkovskiy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3776981 — 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: Maksim Chmerkovskiy Context triple: [Dancing with the Stars (US) season 7, professionalDancer, Maksim Chmerkovskiy]
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Bruno Tonioli
Bruno Tonioli is an Italian choreographer and television personality best known for his exuberant judging roles on popular dance competition shows in the UK and US.
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Benjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied is a French dancer and choreographer, former principal at the New York City Ballet, and founder of the L.A. Dance Project.
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C.
Anton Du Beke
Anton Du Beke is a British ballroom dancer and television personality best known for his long-running role on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, first as a professional dancer and later as a judge.
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Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian-British choreographer, theatre director, and television personality best known for his acerbic and flamboyant judging style on the BBC dance competition Strictly Come Dancing.
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Herman Cornejo
Herman Cornejo is an acclaimed Argentine-born principal dancer renowned for his virtuosic technique and dramatic artistry in classical and contemporary ballet.
- 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: Maksim Chmerkovskiy Target entity description: Maksim Chmerkovskiy is a Ukrainian-American professional ballroom dancer and choreographer best known for his long-running role as a pro on the TV competition show "Dancing with the Stars."
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A.
Bruno Tonioli
Bruno Tonioli is an Italian choreographer and television personality best known for his exuberant judging roles on popular dance competition shows in the UK and US.
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B.
Benjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied is a French dancer and choreographer, former principal at the New York City Ballet, and founder of the L.A. Dance Project.
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C.
Anton Du Beke
Anton Du Beke is a British ballroom dancer and television personality best known for his long-running role on the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, first as a professional dancer and later as a judge.
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D.
Craig Revel Horwood
Craig Revel Horwood is an Australian-British choreographer, theatre director, and television personality best known for his acerbic and flamboyant judging style on the BBC dance competition Strictly Come Dancing.
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E.
Herman Cornejo
Herman Cornejo is an acclaimed Argentine-born principal dancer renowned for his virtuosic technique and dramatic artistry in classical and contemporary ballet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Maksim Chmerkovskiy Description of subject: Maksim Chmerkovskiy is a Ukrainian-American professional ballroom dancer and choreographer best known for his long-running role as a pro on the TV competition show "Dancing with the Stars."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maksim Chmerkovskiy
linked to: Maksim Chmerkovskiy
linked to: Maksim Chmerkovskiy
linked to: Maksim Chmerkovskiy