Isaiah Washington
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Isaiah Washington is an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke on the television series "Grey's Anatomy" and for his performances in films such as "Clockers" and "Get on the Bus."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isaiah Washington canonical | 17 |
| Isiah Washington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3772931 — 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: Isaiah Washington Context triple: [Out of Sight, starring, Isaiah Washington]
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A.
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American character actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theater, including a supporting role in the 2021 adaptation of "Dune."
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B.
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne is an American actor and producer renowned for his powerful screen presence in films such as The Matrix trilogy, Boyz n the Hood, and numerous acclaimed stage and television roles.
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C.
Orlando Jones
Orlando Jones is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television and film, including his prominent part in the supernatural drama series "Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Orlando Jones
Orlando Jones was an early 18th-century Virginia planter and colonial official connected to the prominent Jones and Dandridge families.
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E.
Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright is an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "Angels in America," the "Hunger Games" series, and "Westworld."
- 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: Isaiah Washington Target entity description: Isaiah Washington is an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke on the television series "Grey's Anatomy" and for his performances in films such as "Clockers" and "Get on the Bus."
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A.
Stephen McKinley Henderson
Stephen McKinley Henderson is an American character actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theater, including a supporting role in the 2021 adaptation of "Dune."
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B.
Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne is an American actor and producer renowned for his powerful screen presence in films such as The Matrix trilogy, Boyz n the Hood, and numerous acclaimed stage and television roles.
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C.
Orlando Jones
Orlando Jones is an American actor and comedian known for his roles in television and film, including his prominent part in the supernatural drama series "Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Orlando Jones
Orlando Jones was an early 18th-century Virginia planter and colonial official connected to the prominent Jones and Dandridge families.
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E.
Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright is an acclaimed American actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "Angels in America," the "Hunger Games" series, and "Westworld."
- 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: Isaiah Washington Description of subject: Isaiah Washington is an American actor best known for his role as Dr. Preston Burke on the television series "Grey's Anatomy" and for his performances in films such as "Clockers" and "Get on the Bus."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Isaiah Washington