Ferret Face
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Ferret Face is the unflattering nickname given to the character Major Frank Burns, a petty and inept surgeon on the television series M*A*S*H.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ferret Face canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10339200 — 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: Ferret Face Context triple: [Frank Burns, nickname, Ferret Face]
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A.
Weasel Face
"Weasel Face" is a song by the American punk rock band Ramones from their 1987 album *Halfway to Sanity*.
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B.
Angel Face
Angel Face is a 1953 film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger, best known for Jean Simmons’s chilling performance as a manipulative young woman involved in a deadly romantic entanglement.
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C.
Moppet
Moppet is one of the mischievous kitten siblings in Beatrix Potter’s children’s story "The Tale of Tom Kitten."
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D.
The Freak
The Freak is the nickname of Tim Lincecum, a former San Francisco Giants pitcher known for his dominant performances, unorthodox delivery, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
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E.
Grinnin’ in Your Face
Grinnin’ in Your Face is a stark, a cappella Delta blues song by Son House, celebrated for its raw vocal power and haunting emotional intensity.
- 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: Ferret Face Target entity description: Ferret Face is the unflattering nickname given to the character Major Frank Burns, a petty and inept surgeon on the television series M*A*S*H.
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A.
Weasel Face
"Weasel Face" is a song by the American punk rock band Ramones from their 1987 album *Halfway to Sanity*.
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B.
Angel Face
Angel Face is a 1953 film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger, best known for Jean Simmons’s chilling performance as a manipulative young woman involved in a deadly romantic entanglement.
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C.
Moppet
Moppet is one of the mischievous kitten siblings in Beatrix Potter’s children’s story "The Tale of Tom Kitten."
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D.
The Freak
The Freak is the nickname of Tim Lincecum, a former San Francisco Giants pitcher known for his dominant performances, unorthodox delivery, and multiple Cy Young Awards.
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E.
Grinnin’ in Your Face
Grinnin’ in Your Face is a stark, a cappella Delta blues song by Son House, celebrated for its raw vocal power and haunting emotional intensity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
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: Ferret Face Description of subject: Ferret Face is the unflattering nickname given to the character Major Frank Burns, a petty and inept surgeon on the television series M*A*S*H.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.