Donald James Yarmy
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Donald James Yarmy was the birth name of American actor and comedian Don Adams, best known for starring as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the television series "Get Smart."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donald James Yarmy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3368049 — 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: Donald James Yarmy Context triple: [Don Adams, birthName, Donald James Yarmy]
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A.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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B.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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E.
Larry Drinkard
Larry Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers.
- 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: Donald James Yarmy Target entity description: Donald James Yarmy was the birth name of American actor and comedian Don Adams, best known for starring as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the television series "Get Smart."
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A.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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B.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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E.
Larry Drinkard
Larry Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Don Adams ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Don Adams ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy acting
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television ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Yarmy ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Donald ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | James ⓘ |
| hasStageName | Don Adams ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying a bumbling secret agent
ⓘ
starring in the television series "Get Smart" ⓘ |
| notableRole | Maxwell Smart ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Get Smart
ⓘ
linked to:
Get Smart (TV series)
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| notableWorkType | television series ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf | American television comedy history ⓘ |
| portrayed | Maxwell Smart ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Donald James Yarmy Description of subject: Donald James Yarmy was the birth name of American actor and comedian Don Adams, best known for starring as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the television series "Get Smart."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.