Kojak
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Kojak is a 1970s American television crime drama series centered on the tough, lollipop-licking New York City detective Theo Kojak, played by Telly Savalas.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kojak canonical | 20 |
| Kojak (2005 TV series) | 1 |
| Nurse Ratched episode of Kojak | 1 |
| Theo Kojak | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1033831 — 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: Kojak Context triple: [Lorraine Gary, workedOn, Kojak]
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A.
Matlock
Matlock is a historic spa and market town in Derbyshire, England, known for its picturesque setting in the Derwent Valley and its role as the county’s administrative centre.
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B.
Homicide Hank
Homicide Hank was the ring nickname of Henry Armstrong, the legendary American boxer renowned for simultaneously holding three world titles in different weight classes.
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C.
Cosmo Brown
Cosmo Brown is the wisecracking, musically gifted best friend and sidekick to Don Lockwood in the classic Hollywood musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Mickey Goldmill
Mickey Goldmill is the gruff, old-school boxing trainer and mentor of Rocky Balboa in the "Rocky" film series.
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E.
C. K. Dexter-Haven
C. K. Dexter-Haven is the charming, witty ex-husband of socialite Tracy Lord in the musical film "High Society," famously portrayed by Bing Crosby.
- 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: Kojak Target entity description: Kojak is a 1970s American television crime drama series centered on the tough, lollipop-licking New York City detective Theo Kojak, played by Telly Savalas.
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A.
Matlock
Matlock is a historic spa and market town in Derbyshire, England, known for its picturesque setting in the Derwent Valley and its role as the county’s administrative centre.
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B.
Homicide Hank
Homicide Hank was the ring nickname of Henry Armstrong, the legendary American boxer renowned for simultaneously holding three world titles in different weight classes.
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C.
Cosmo Brown
Cosmo Brown is the wisecracking, musically gifted best friend and sidekick to Don Lockwood in the classic Hollywood musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Mickey Goldmill
Mickey Goldmill is the gruff, old-school boxing trainer and mentor of Rocky Balboa in the "Rocky" film series.
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E.
C. K. Dexter-Haven
C. K. Dexter-Haven is the charming, witty ex-husband of socialite Tracy Lord in the musical film "High Society," famously portrayed by Bing Crosby.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Kojak Description of subject: Kojak is a 1970s American television crime drama series centered on the tough, lollipop-licking New York City detective Theo Kojak, played by Telly Savalas.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kojak (2005 TV series)
this entity surface form:
Nurse Ratched episode of Kojak