James Avery
E426047
James Avery was an American actor best known for his role as Philip Banks on the television sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Avery canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4287114 — 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: James Avery Context triple: [Norfolk State University, hasNotableAlumni, James Avery]
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A.
Dominique Caine
Dominique Caine is one of the children of acclaimed British actor Michael Caine.
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B.
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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C.
Tom Mison
Tom Mison is an English actor best known for playing Ichabod Crane in the supernatural drama television series "Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Earl Jones
Earl Jones is a civil rights attorney and activist best known as a co-founder of the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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E.
Robert Joy
Robert Joy is a Canadian actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including his work on the crime drama series CSI: NY.
- 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: James Avery Target entity description: James Avery was an American actor best known for his role as Philip Banks on the television sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
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A.
Dominique Caine
Dominique Caine is one of the children of acclaimed British actor Michael Caine.
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B.
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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C.
Tom Mison
Tom Mison is an English actor best known for playing Ichabod Crane in the supernatural drama television series "Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Earl Jones
Earl Jones is a civil rights attorney and activist best known as a co-founder of the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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E.
Robert Joy
Robert Joy is a Canadian actor best known for his character roles in film and television, including his work on the crime drama series CSI: NY.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2013 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980 ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
8 Million Ways to Die
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Amen NERFINISHED ⓘ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. Dolittle 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Grey's Anatomy NERFINISHED ⓘ L.A. Law NERFINISHED ⓘ License to Drive NERFINISHED ⓘ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Closer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jeffersons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | James LaRue Avery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications from open heart surgery ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Philip Banks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
voice of Shredder ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | Vietnam War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-11-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-12-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Avery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | drama and literature ⓘ |
| genre | television comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0043041 ⓘ |
| knownFor | portrayal of Philip Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1988 ⓘ |
| name | James Avery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Pughsville, Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Glendale, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| restingPlace | Cremated ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Barbara Avery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: James Avery Description of subject: James Avery was an American actor best known for his role as Philip Banks on the television sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.