Kevin Clash
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Kevin Clash is an American puppeteer, director, and producer best known as the longtime performer of Elmo on the children's television show Sesame Street.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Clash canonical | 7 |
| Kevin Jeffrey Clash | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5342395 — 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: Kevin Clash Context triple: [Labyrinth, castMember, Kevin Clash]
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A.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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B.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
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C.
Michael Richards
Michael Richards is an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric neighbor Cosmo Kramer on the hit sitcom "Seinfeld."
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D.
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of Olympic runner and devout Christian Eric Liddell in the film "Chariots of Fire."
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E.
Josh Gad
Josh Gad is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Frozen" (as the voice of Olaf) and "Beauty and the Beast," as well as on Broadway in "The Book of Mormon."
- 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: Kevin Clash Target entity description: Kevin Clash is an American puppeteer, director, and producer best known as the longtime performer of Elmo on the children's television show Sesame Street.
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A.
Michael Ian Black
Michael Ian Black is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director known for his work on "The State," "Stella," and numerous stand-up and television appearances.
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B.
Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins is an American comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up, podcast appearances, and character roles in television and film.
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C.
Michael Richards
Michael Richards is an American actor and comedian best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric neighbor Cosmo Kramer on the hit sitcom "Seinfeld."
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D.
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson was a Scottish actor best known for his portrayal of Olympic runner and devout Christian Eric Liddell in the film "Chariots of Fire."
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E.
Josh Gad
Josh Gad is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in films like "Frozen" (as the voice of Olaf) and "Beauty and the Beast," as well as on Broadway in "The Book of Mormon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
puppeteer ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
children's entertainment
ⓘ
puppetry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series
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Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series (multiple times) ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City (professional work) ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1960-09-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Baltimore, Maryland, United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Sesame Workshop
ⓘ
linked to:
Children's Television Workshop
|
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Clash ⓘ |
| genre | children's television ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Baby Natasha
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Clifford (Muppets Tonight) ⓘ Elmo ⓘ Hoots the Owl ⓘ Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze) ⓘ
linked to:
Splinter
Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III) ⓘ
linked to:
Splinter
Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 1990 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Splinter
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| knownFor | performing Elmo on Sesame Street ⓘ |
| name |
Kevin Jeffrey Clash
ⓘ
linked to:
Kevin Clash
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| notableAchievement | helped develop the personality and voice of Elmo ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Elmo
ⓘ
Sesame Street ⓘ |
| occupation |
puppeteer
ⓘ
television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Bear in the Big Blue House
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Captain Kangaroo ⓘ Dinosaurs (TV series) ⓘ Labyrinth (1986 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Labyrinth
Muppets Tonight ⓘ Oobi (TV series) ⓘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film) ⓘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze ⓘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III ⓘ The Great Space Coaster ⓘ The Jim Henson Hour ⓘ |
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: Kevin Clash Description of subject: Kevin Clash is an American puppeteer, director, and producer best known as the longtime performer of Elmo on the children's television show Sesame Street.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kevin Clash