Winninger
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Winninger is a surname most notably associated with American character actor Charles Winninger, known for his work in early 20th-century stage and film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winninger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10121718 — 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: Winninger Context triple: [Charles Winninger, familyName, Winninger]
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A.
Winer
Winer is a surname most notably associated with Dave Winer, an influential software developer and pioneer of blogging and RSS technologies.
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B.
Wersing
Wersing is a lesser-known Papuan language spoken on the Alor–Pantar archipelago in eastern Indonesia.
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C.
Biedenharn
Biedenharn is a surname most notably associated with Joseph A. Biedenharn, an early bottler of Coca-Cola and prominent American businessman.
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D.
Berninger
Berninger is a German-origin surname most notably associated with Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the indie rock band The National.
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E.
Seelbach
Seelbach is a municipality in southwestern Germany’s Baden-Württemberg region, situated in the Ortenau district near the Black Forest.
- 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: Winninger Target entity description: Winninger is a surname most notably associated with American character actor Charles Winninger, known for his work in early 20th-century stage and film.
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A.
Winer
Winer is a surname most notably associated with Dave Winer, an influential software developer and pioneer of blogging and RSS technologies.
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B.
Wersing
Wersing is a lesser-known Papuan language spoken on the Alor–Pantar archipelago in eastern Indonesia.
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C.
Biedenharn
Biedenharn is a surname most notably associated with Joseph A. Biedenharn, an early bottler of Coca-Cola and prominent American businessman.
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D.
Berninger
Berninger is a German-origin surname most notably associated with Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the indie rock band The National.
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E.
Seelbach
Seelbach is a municipality in southwestern Germany’s Baden-Württemberg region, situated in the Ortenau district near the Black Forest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Winninger ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Charles Winninger ⓘ |
| notableFor |
character roles in early 20th-century American theatre
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character roles in early American cinema ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Germany
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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: Winninger Description of subject: Winninger is a surname most notably associated with American character actor Charles Winninger, known for his work in early 20th-century stage and film.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Winninger