Dennis Haysbert
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Dennis Haysbert is an American actor known for his deep voice and prominent roles in film and television, including "24," "Major League," and numerous commercial campaigns.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Haysbert canonical | 18 |
| Haysbert | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206050 — 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: Dennis Haysbert Context triple: [Waiting to Exhale, starring, Dennis Haysbert]
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A.
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown is an American actor known for his deep voice and memorable roles in films like "The Shawshank Redemption" and as the voice of Mr. Krabs in "SpongeBob SquarePants."
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B.
Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins Jr. is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in films and television series such as "Capote," "Traffic," and "Westworld."
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C.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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D.
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as communications director Toby Ziegler on the political drama series "The West Wing."
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E.
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Josh Lyman on the political drama series "The West Wing."
- 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: Dennis Haysbert Target entity description: Dennis Haysbert is an American actor known for his deep voice and prominent roles in film and television, including "24," "Major League," and numerous commercial campaigns.
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A.
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown is an American actor known for his deep voice and memorable roles in films like "The Shawshank Redemption" and as the voice of Mr. Krabs in "SpongeBob SquarePants."
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B.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and filmmaker known for his tough, stoic characters in films such as "The Fugitive," "No Country for Old Men," and "Men in Black."
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C.
Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins Jr. is an American character actor known for his versatile roles in films and television series such as "Capote," "Traffic," and "Westworld."
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D.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Jones is an American character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Beetlejuice," and "Amadeus."
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E.
Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as communications director Toby Ziegler on the political drama series "The West Wing."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Dennis Haysbert Description of subject: Dennis Haysbert is an American actor known for his deep voice and prominent roles in film and television, including "24," "Major League," and numerous commercial campaigns.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Haysbert
subject surface form:
David Palmer