Kevin Shinick
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Kevin Shinick is an American writer, actor, comedian, and voice artist known for his work on shows like Robot Chicken and MAD as well as hosting the game show Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kevin Shinick canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11773717 — 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)
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Target entity: Kevin Shinick Context triple: [Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?, presenter, Kevin Shinick]
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A.
Shawn Eichman
Shawn Eichman is an American political activist best known as a defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down federal prohibitions on flag desecration as unconstitutional.
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B.
Eric Danchick
Eric Danchick is a film producer known for his work on the movie "Bound 2."
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C.
Chris Sievernich
Chris Sievernich is a German film producer best known for his work on acclaimed art-house and independent films, including Wim Wenders’ "Paris, Texas."
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D.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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E.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
- 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: Kevin Shinick Target entity description: Kevin Shinick is an American writer, actor, comedian, and voice artist known for his work on shows like Robot Chicken and MAD as well as hosting the game show Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?.
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A.
Shawn Eichman
Shawn Eichman is an American political activist best known as a defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down federal prohibitions on flag desecration as unconstitutional.
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B.
Eric Danchick
Eric Danchick is a film producer known for his work on the movie "Bound 2."
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C.
Chris Sievernich
Chris Sievernich is a German film producer best known for his work on acclaimed art-house and independent films, including Wim Wenders’ "Paris, Texas."
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D.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
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E.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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comedian ⓘ comic book writer ⓘ human ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Adult Swim
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Cartoon Network ⓘ |
| familyName | Shinick ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animation
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comic books ⓘ game shows ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
animation
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comedy ⓘ sketch comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
DC Comics titles
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Marvel Comics titles ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating MAD (TV series)
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hosting Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? ⓘ producing Robot Chicken ⓘ voice work on Robot Chicken ⓘ writing for Robot Chicken ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Shinick ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Avenging Spider-Man
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MAD (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
MAD
Robot Chicken ⓘ Star Wars: Detours ⓘ Superior Carnage ⓘ
linked to:
Carnage (symbiote)
Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ comic book writer ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| voiceType | male voice ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Kevin Shinick Description of subject: Kevin Shinick is an American writer, actor, comedian, and voice artist known for his work on shows like Robot Chicken and MAD as well as hosting the game show Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.