Don Swayze
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Don Swayze is an American character actor known for his work in film and television, often appearing in supporting and guest roles across various dramas and action series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Swayze canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12667970 — 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: Don Swayze Context triple: [Patrick Swayze, hasSibling, Don Swayze]
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A.
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze was an American actor and dancer best known for his charismatic leading roles in hit films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost."
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B.
Jesse Wayne Swayze
Jesse Wayne Swayze was the father of American actor and dancer Patrick Swayze.
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C.
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff is an American actor, singer, and producer best known for his starring roles in the television series "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch."
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D.
Don Johnson
Don Johnson is an American actor best known for his charismatic leading role in the 1980s TV series "Miami Vice" and numerous film and television appearances.
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E.
Mark Lenard
Mark Lenard was an American actor best known to Star Trek fans for his recurring roles as Sarek, Spock’s Vulcan father, and other key alien characters across the 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: Don Swayze Target entity description: Don Swayze is an American character actor known for his work in film and television, often appearing in supporting and guest roles across various dramas and action series.
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A.
Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze was an American actor and dancer best known for his charismatic leading roles in hit films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost."
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B.
Jesse Wayne Swayze
Jesse Wayne Swayze was the father of American actor and dancer Patrick Swayze.
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C.
David Hasselhoff
David Hasselhoff is an American actor, singer, and producer best known for his starring roles in the television series "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch."
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D.
Don Johnson
Don Johnson is an American actor best known for his charismatic leading role in the 1980s TV series "Miami Vice" and numerous film and television appearances.
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E.
Mark Lenard
Mark Lenard was an American actor best known to Star Trek fans for his recurring roles as Sarek, Spock’s Vulcan father, and other key alien characters across the franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-08-10 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Jesse Wayne Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Jesse Wayne Swayze
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patrick Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ Patsy Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mother | Patsy Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Don Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
often appears in guest roles
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often appears in supporting roles ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Gus in True Blood
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Sheriff Clyde Aikens in The Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ guest roles in Criminal Minds ⓘ guest roles in Sons of Anarchy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Criminal Minds
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Days of Our Lives NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Ring NERFINISHED ⓘ Driving Force NERFINISHED ⓘ Edge of Honor NERFINISHED ⓘ Heathens and Thieves NERFINISHED ⓘ Matlock NERFINISHED ⓘ Murder, She Wrote NERFINISHED ⓘ NCIS NERFINISHED ⓘ Shy People NERFINISHED ⓘ Sons of Anarchy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Appearing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Visitation NERFINISHED ⓘ The X-Files NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young and the Restless NERFINISHED ⓘ True Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Patrick Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Charlene Swayze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Don Swayze Description of subject: Don Swayze is an American character actor known for his work in film and television, often appearing in supporting and guest roles across various dramas and action series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.