William Zabka
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William Zabka is an American actor best known for playing the rival bully Johnny Lawrence in the Karate Kid film series and its sequel series Cobra Kai.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Zabka canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13121552 — 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: William Zabka Context triple: [The Karate Kid, starredActor, William Zabka]
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A.
John Ogrodnick
John Ogrodnick is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger best known for his high-scoring NHL career, primarily with the Detroit Red Wings, during the 1980s.
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B.
Edward Ochab
Edward Ochab was a Polish communist politician who briefly served as the de facto leader of Poland in 1956, overseeing the political transition during the Polish October reforms.
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C.
John Zaremba
John Zaremba was an American character actor known for his frequent roles in 1950s–1960s science fiction films and television series.
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D.
Thomas Kozumplik
Thomas Kozumplik is a percussionist and composer best known as a member of the experimental music group Clogs.
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E.
Daniel Dubiecki
Daniel Dubiecki is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Up in the Air" and other high-profile Hollywood projects.
- 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: William Zabka Target entity description: William Zabka is an American actor best known for playing the rival bully Johnny Lawrence in the Karate Kid film series and its sequel series Cobra Kai.
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A.
John Ogrodnick
John Ogrodnick is a former Canadian professional ice hockey left winger best known for his high-scoring NHL career, primarily with the Detroit Red Wings, during the 1980s.
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B.
Edward Ochab
Edward Ochab was a Polish communist politician who briefly served as the de facto leader of Poland in 1956, overseeing the political transition during the Polish October reforms.
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C.
John Zaremba
John Zaremba was an American character actor known for his frequent roles in 1950s–1960s science fiction films and television series.
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D.
Thomas Kozumplik
Thomas Kozumplik is a percussionist and composer best known as a member of the experimental music group Clogs.
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E.
Daniel Dubiecki
Daniel Dubiecki is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Up in the Air" and other high-profile Hollywood projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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director ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | William Michael Zabka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | Johnny Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-10-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | California State University, Northridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Zabka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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comedy ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasChild | son ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying Johnny Lawrence in Cobra Kai
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portraying Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid ⓘ portraying Johnny Lawrence in The Karate Kid Part II ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | William Zabka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Most ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Back to School
NERFINISHED
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Cobra Kai NERFINISHED ⓘ How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ Just One of the Guys NERFINISHED ⓘ Most NERFINISHED ⓘ The Karate Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ The Karate Kid Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| parent |
Nancy Zabka
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stanley Zabka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Stacie Zabka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: William Zabka Description of subject: William Zabka is an American actor best known for playing the rival bully Johnny Lawrence in the Karate Kid film series and its sequel series Cobra Kai.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.