Hasan Minhaj
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Hasan Minhaj is an American comedian, writer, producer, and actor best known for his political satire on "The Daily Show" and his Netflix series "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hasan Minhaj canonical | 4 |
| Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King | 2 |
| Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester | 2 |
| Hassan Minhaj | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3820094 — 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: Hasan Minhaj Context triple: [The Spy Who Dumped Me, starring, Hasan Minhaj]
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A.
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as co-creator and star of the sketch series "Key & Peele" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
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B.
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and director best known for his role on "Parks and Recreation" and for creating and starring in the acclaimed series "Master of None."
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C.
B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
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D.
John Mulaney
John Mulaney is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and his acclaimed comedy specials.
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E.
John Oliver
John Oliver is a British-American comedian and political satirist best known as the host of the HBO news-comedy show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."
- 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: Hasan Minhaj Target entity description: Hasan Minhaj is an American comedian, writer, producer, and actor best known for his political satire on "The Daily Show" and his Netflix series "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj."
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A.
Keegan-Michael Key
Keegan-Michael Key is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known as co-creator and star of the sketch series "Key & Peele" and for his extensive work in film and television comedy.
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B.
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and director best known for his role on "Parks and Recreation" and for creating and starring in the acclaimed series "Master of None."
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C.
B. J. Novak
B. J. Novak is an American actor, writer, comedian, and director best known for his work on the U.S. version of "The Office."
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D.
John Mulaney
John Mulaney is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and his acclaimed comedy specials.
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E.
John Oliver
John Oliver is a British-American comedian and political satirist best known as the host of the HBO news-comedy show "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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human ⓘ political satirist ⓘ producer ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television presenter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of California, Davis ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Arrested Development
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Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj ⓘ The Daily Show ⓘ The Spy Who Dumped Me ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Peabody Award
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Primetime Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
|
| birthName | Hasan Minhaj ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1985-09-23 ⓘ |
| employer |
Comedy Central
ⓘ
Netflix ⓘ The Daily Show ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
Indian
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South Asian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy
ⓘ
political satire ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
observational comedy
ⓘ
political satire ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter (name not public)
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son (name not public) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ Urdu ⓘ
linked to:
Urdu language
|
| name | Hasan Minhaj ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Homecoming King
ⓘ
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj ⓘ The Daily Show ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ producer ⓘ television host ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King
ⓘ
linked to:
Hasan Minhaj
Hasan Minhaj: The King’s Jester ⓘ
linked to:
Hasan Minhaj
|
| placeOfBirth |
Davis, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Davis, California
|
| positionHeld |
correspondent on The Daily Show
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host of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| spouse | Beena Patel ⓘ |
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: Hasan Minhaj Description of subject: Hasan Minhaj is an American comedian, writer, producer, and actor best known for his political satire on "The Daily Show" and his Netflix series "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hassan Minhaj (guest host)
linked to: Hasan Minhaj
subject linked to:
Hassan Minhaj (guest host)
linked to: Hasan Minhaj
subject linked to:
Hassan Minhaj (guest host)
linked to: Hasan Minhaj
linked to: Hasan Minhaj
linked to: Hasan Minhaj