Kotto
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Kotto is the surname of Yaphet Kotto, an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Alien" and the James Bond movie "Live and Let Die."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kotto canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5129380 — 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: Kotto Context triple: [Yaphet Kotto, familyName, Kotto]
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A.
Shinya
Shinya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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B.
Seiji
Seiji is a Japanese given name most famously associated with the renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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C.
Takaichi
Takaichi is a Japanese surname most prominently associated with conservative politician Sanae Takaichi.
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D.
Koichi
Koichi is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in fields such as science, politics, and entertainment.
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E.
Shoichi Sakata
Shoichi Sakata was a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his influential Sakata model of hadrons and his foundational contributions to particle physics in Japan.
- 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: Kotto Target entity description: Kotto is the surname of Yaphet Kotto, an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Alien" and the James Bond movie "Live and Let Die."
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A.
Shinya
Shinya is a Japanese given name commonly used for males.
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B.
Seiji
Seiji is a Japanese given name most famously associated with the renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa.
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C.
Takaichi
Takaichi is a Japanese surname most prominently associated with conservative politician Sanae Takaichi.
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D.
Koichi
Koichi is a Japanese given name commonly used for males and borne by various notable figures in fields such as science, politics, and entertainment.
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E.
Shoichi Sakata
Shoichi Sakata was a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist known for his influential Sakata model of hadrons and his foundational contributions to particle physics in Japan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-11-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-03-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
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linked to:
Black Americans
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| familyName | Kotto ⓘ |
| givenName | Yaphet ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in the James Bond film Live and Let Die
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role in the film Alien ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alien
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linked to:
Alien (1979 film)
Homicide: Life on the Street ⓘ Live and Let Die ⓘ Midnight Run ⓘ The Running Man ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 6 ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Philippines ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big in Live and Let Die
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linked to:
Dr. Kananga aka Mr. Big
Lieutenant Al Giardello in Homicide: Life on the Street ⓘ Parker in Alien ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Tessie Sinahon ⓘ |
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: Kotto Description of subject: Kotto is the surname of Yaphet Kotto, an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Alien" and the James Bond movie "Live and Let Die."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.