Michele Placido
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Michele Placido is an Italian actor and director best known internationally for his role as police inspector Corrado Cattani in the TV series "La Piovra" and for directing acclaimed crime dramas such as "Romanzo Criminale."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michele Placido canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5649831 — 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: Michele Placido Context triple: [Michele, hasFamousBearer, Michele Placido]
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A.
Michele Laurita
Michele Laurita is a music video director known for her work on notable projects such as Rage Against the Machine’s “Guerrilla Radio.”
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B.
Carmine Rocco
Carmine Rocco was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and Vatican diplomat who served as an apostolic nuncio in several countries during the 20th century.
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C.
Victor Buono
Victor Buono was an American character actor and comedian known for his imposing presence and memorable roles in films and television during the 1960s and 1970s, including his Oscar-nominated performance in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?".
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D.
Mario Cantone
Mario Cantone is an American comedian and actor best known for his high-energy stand-up and his role as the sharp-tongued Anthony Marentino in the Sex and the City franchise.
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E.
Joseph Stefano
Joseph Stefano was an American screenwriter and producer best known for adapting Robert Bloch’s novel into Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Psycho" and for his work on the television series "The Outer Limits."
- 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: Michele Placido Target entity description: Michele Placido is an Italian actor and director best known internationally for his role as police inspector Corrado Cattani in the TV series "La Piovra" and for directing acclaimed crime dramas such as "Romanzo Criminale."
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A.
Michele Laurita
Michele Laurita is a music video director known for her work on notable projects such as Rage Against the Machine’s “Guerrilla Radio.”
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B.
Carmine Rocco
Carmine Rocco was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate and Vatican diplomat who served as an apostolic nuncio in several countries during the 20th century.
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C.
Victor Buono
Victor Buono was an American character actor and comedian known for his imposing presence and memorable roles in films and television during the 1960s and 1970s, including his Oscar-nominated performance in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?".
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D.
Mario Cantone
Mario Cantone is an American comedian and actor best known for his high-energy stand-up and his role as the sharp-tongued Anthony Marentino in the Sex and the City franchise.
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E.
Joseph Stefano
Joseph Stefano was an American screenwriter and producer best known for adapting Robert Bloch’s novel into Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Psycho" and for his work on the television series "The Outer Limits."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
Italian cinema
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Italian television ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
David di Donatello
NERFINISHED
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Nastro d’Argento NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver Bear for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Corrado Cattani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Brenno Placido
NERFINISHED
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Gabriele Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ Inigo Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelangelo Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ Violante Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Italy ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-05-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D’Amico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Michele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Corrado Cattani in La Piovra ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | Italian ⓘ |
| name | Michele Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Italian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
7 minuti
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Del perduto amore NERFINISHED ⓘ Il cecchino NERFINISHED ⓘ Il grande sogno NERFINISHED ⓘ La Piovra NERFINISHED ⓘ Le amiche del cuore NERFINISHED ⓘ L’ombra di Caravaggio NERFINISHED ⓘ Ovunque sei NERFINISHED ⓘ Pummarò NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanzo Criminale NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanzo Criminale – La serie NERFINISHED ⓘ Un eroe borghese NERFINISHED ⓘ Vallanzasca – Gli angeli del male NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Apulia
NERFINISHED
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Ascoli Satriano NERFINISHED ⓘ Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Federica Vincenti
NERFINISHED
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Simonetta Stefanelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Michele Placido Description of subject: Michele Placido is an Italian actor and director best known internationally for his role as police inspector Corrado Cattani in the TV series "La Piovra" and for directing acclaimed crime dramas such as "Romanzo Criminale."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.