Telly Savalas
E254596
Telly Savalas was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the bald, lollipop-licking detective in the 1970s television series "Kojak."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Telly Savalas canonical | 15 |
| George Savalas | 2 |
| Nick Savalas | 1 |
| Telly "Kojak" Savalas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2187729 — 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: Telly Savalas Context triple: [Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, burialPlaceOf, Telly Savalas]
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A.
Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna was an American actor and director known for his roles in films such as the "Rambo" series and numerous television shows including "The Real McCoys."
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B.
Richard Conte
Richard Conte was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic crime dramas and film noir, including "The Godfather" and "Thieves' Highway."
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C.
Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia was an American character actor and director known for his gruff voice and memorable roles in films such as "Scarface," "Big," and "Independence Day."
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D.
Stanley Baker
Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer known for his intense screen presence and prominent roles in British cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
John Gavin
John Gavin was an American film actor and diplomat best known for his leading roles in classic films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Psycho" and "Imitation of Life."
- 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: Telly Savalas Target entity description: Telly Savalas was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the bald, lollipop-licking detective in the 1970s television series "Kojak."
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A.
Richard Crenna
Richard Crenna was an American actor and director known for his roles in films such as the "Rambo" series and numerous television shows including "The Real McCoys."
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B.
Richard Conte
Richard Conte was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic crime dramas and film noir, including "The Godfather" and "Thieves' Highway."
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C.
Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia was an American character actor and director known for his gruff voice and memorable roles in films such as "Scarface," "Big," and "Independence Day."
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D.
Stanley Baker
Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer known for his intense screen presence and prominent roles in British cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
John Gavin
John Gavin was an American film actor and diplomat best known for his leading roles in classic films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Psycho" and "Imitation of Life."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Telly Savalas Description of subject: Telly Savalas was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the bald, lollipop-licking detective in the 1970s television series "Kojak."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Birdman of Alcatraz
this entity surface form:
Telly "Kojak" Savalas
this entity surface form:
Nick Savalas
this entity surface form:
George Savalas
this entity surface form:
George Savalas