Charles Martinet
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Charles Martinet is an American voice actor best known for portraying Mario and several other iconic characters in Nintendo’s Super Mario video game franchise.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Martinet canonical | 9 |
| Charles Martinet (various roars and early roles) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597966 — 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: Charles Martinet Context triple: [The Super Mario Bros. Movie, voiceActor, Charles Martinet]
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A.
Dee Bradley Baker
Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor renowned for his extensive work in animation and video games, particularly for his versatile character and creature voices in series like American Dad!, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and many others.
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B.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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C.
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."
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D.
Dan Quagmire
Dan Quagmire is a minor character in the animated television series "Family Guy," known primarily as the father of Glenn Quagmire.
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E.
Frank Oz
Frank Oz is an acclaimed puppeteer, actor, and filmmaker best known for performing iconic Muppet characters and voicing Yoda in the Star Wars franchise.
- 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: Charles Martinet Target entity description: Charles Martinet is an American voice actor best known for portraying Mario and several other iconic characters in Nintendo’s Super Mario video game franchise.
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A.
Dee Bradley Baker
Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor renowned for his extensive work in animation and video games, particularly for his versatile character and creature voices in series like American Dad!, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and many others.
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B.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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C.
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."
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D.
Dan Quagmire
Dan Quagmire is a minor character in the animated television series "Family Guy," known primarily as the father of Glenn Quagmire.
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E.
Frank Oz
Frank Oz is an acclaimed puppeteer, actor, and filmmaker best known for performing iconic Muppet characters and voicing Yoda in the Star Wars franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeInField | video games ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Nintendo
ⓘ
Super Mario franchise ⓘ
linked to:
Super Mario video game franchise
|
| bestKnownFor | portraying Mario in Nintendo’s Super Mario franchise ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-09-17 ⓘ |
| education | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | Nintendo ⓘ |
| familyName | Martinet ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
video game industry
ⓘ
voice acting ⓘ |
| genre | video game acting ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | French descent ⓘ |
| hasRole | brand ambassador for Mario (later career) ⓘ |
| knownFor | energetic and comedic vocal performances ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Charles Martinet ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | first major appearance as Mario voice in Super Mario 64 ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Luigi in Luigi’s Mansion series
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Mario in Mario Kart series ⓘ Mario in New Super Mario Bros. series ⓘ Mario in Super Mario 64 ⓘ
linked to:
Mario
Mario in Super Mario Galaxy ⓘ
linked to:
Mario
Mario in Super Mario Sunshine ⓘ
linked to:
Mario
Mario in Super Smash Bros. series ⓘ
linked to:
Mario
Wario in Wario Land series ⓘ
linked to:
Wario
Wario in WarioWare series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Super Mario series
ⓘ
linked to:
Super Mario Bros.
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| occupation |
actor
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voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Jose, California, United States ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| voiceOfCharacter |
Baby Luigi
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linked to:
Luigi
Baby Mario ⓘ Luigi ⓘ Mario ⓘ Metal Mario ⓘ Shadow Mario ⓘ Waluigi ⓘ Wario ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Japan
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Charles Martinet Description of subject: Charles Martinet is an American voice actor best known for portraying Mario and several other iconic characters in Nintendo’s Super Mario video game franchise.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Charles Martinet