Mike Altman
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Mike Altman is an American lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to the theme song of the film and television series M*A*S*H, "Suicide Is Painless," when he was a teenager.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Altman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10338959 — 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: Mike Altman Context triple: [Suicide Is Painless, lyricist, Mike Altman]
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A.
Jack Altman
Jack Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the HR software company Lattice.
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B.
Michael Greenberg
Michael Greenberg is a prominent American neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on activity-dependent gene expression in the brain.
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C.
Michael Greenberg
Michael Greenberg is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime executive leader of the global footwear company Skechers.
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D.
Mike Greenberg
Mike Greenberg is an American television and radio sportscaster best known as a longtime ESPN personality and co-host of popular sports talk shows.
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E.
James Altman
James Altman is the son of American lawyer and video game executive Robert A. Altman.
- 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: Mike Altman Target entity description: Mike Altman is an American lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to the theme song of the film and television series M*A*S*H, "Suicide Is Painless," when he was a teenager.
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A.
Jack Altman
Jack Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the HR software company Lattice.
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B.
Michael Greenberg
Michael Greenberg is a prominent American neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on activity-dependent gene expression in the brain.
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C.
Michael Greenberg
Michael Greenberg is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime executive leader of the global footwear company Skechers.
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D.
Mike Greenberg
Mike Greenberg is an American television and radio sportscaster best known as a longtime ESPN personality and co-host of popular sports talk shows.
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E.
James Altman
James Altman is the son of American lawyer and video game executive Robert A. Altman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lyricist ⓘ song ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Robert Altman ⓘ |
| genre |
film music
ⓘ
television music ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Robert Altman ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lyricsBy |
Mike Altman
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Mike Altman ⓘ Mike Altman ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing the lyrics to "Suicide Is Painless" as a teenager ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Suicide Is Painless
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theme song of the film M*A*S*H ⓘ theme song of the television series M*A*S*H ⓘ |
| occupation |
lyricist
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songwriter ⓘ |
| use |
theme song of the film M*A*S*H
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theme song of the television series M*A*S*H ⓘ |
| wroteLyricsFor |
Suicide Is Painless
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theme song of the film M*A*S*H ⓘ theme song of the television series M*A*S*H ⓘ |
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: Mike Altman Description of subject: Mike Altman is an American lyricist best known for writing the lyrics to the theme song of the film and television series M*A*S*H, "Suicide Is Painless," when he was a teenager.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.