Burgess Meredith
E67748
United States military personnel
film actor
film director
human
stage actor
television actor
theatre director
voice actor
Burgess Meredith was an American actor and director best known for his versatile character roles in film, television, and theater, including his iconic performance as the Penguin in the 1960s Batman TV series.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Burgess Meredith canonical | 39 |
| American actor and filmmaker Burgess Meredith | 1 |
| Burgess Meredith as Ammon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T492772 — 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: Burgess Meredith Context triple: [Rocky, starring, Burgess Meredith]
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A.
George Sanders
George Sanders was a British actor known for his sophisticated, sardonic screen presence and acclaimed performances in classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning role in "All About Eve."
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B.
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
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C.
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp was a British-born American film actor and director best known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in numerous silent and sound films.
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D.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
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E.
Leo Genn
Leo Genn was a British actor and barrister known for his distinguished, authoritative screen presence in mid-20th-century films.
- 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: Burgess Meredith Target entity description: Burgess Meredith was an American actor and director best known for his versatile character roles in film, television, and theater, including his iconic performance as the Penguin in the 1960s Batman TV series.
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A.
George Sanders
George Sanders was a British actor known for his sophisticated, sardonic screen presence and acclaimed performances in classic Hollywood films, including his Oscar-winning role in "All About Eve."
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B.
Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert was an American actor best known for his roles in film and television, particularly the sitcom "Green Acres" and numerous classic Hollywood movies.
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C.
Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp was a British-born American film actor and director best known for his prolific career in early Hollywood cinema, including roles in numerous silent and sound films.
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D.
Norman Lloyd
Norman Lloyd was an American actor, producer, and director whose career in film, television, and theater spanned more than eight decades.
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E.
Leo Genn
Leo Genn was a British actor and barrister known for his distinguished, authoritative screen presence in mid-20th-century films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Burgess Meredith Description of subject: Burgess Meredith was an American actor and director best known for his versatile character roles in film, television, and theater, including his iconic performance as the Penguin in the 1960s Batman TV series.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California, United States
subject linked to:
Marion Levy
subject linked to:
Hank Taylor – Burgess Meredith
linked to: Burgess Meredith
linked to: Burgess Meredith
subject linked to:
Helen Derby Merrien (divorced)
subject linked to:
Margaret Perry (divorced)