Allen Payne
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Allen Payne is an American actor best known for his roles in the sitcom "The Cosby Show," the film "New Jack City," and the television series "Tyler Perry's House of Payne."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Allen Payne canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5534512 — 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: Allen Payne Context triple: [Doug McHenry, hasWorkedWith, Allen Payne]
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A.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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B.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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C.
Ralph Izard
Ralph Izard was an American statesman and U.S. Senator from South Carolina who played a prominent role in the early federal government after the American Revolution.
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D.
Louis T. Wigfall
Louis T. Wigfall was a prominent Texas politician and Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his fiery oratory and staunch secessionist views.
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E.
James B. Cobb Jr.
James B. Cobb Jr. is an American songwriter and guitarist best known as a member of the Classics IV and the Atlanta Rhythm Section, co-writing several soft rock and pop hits of the late 1960s and 1970s.
- 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: Allen Payne Target entity description: Allen Payne is an American actor best known for his roles in the sitcom "The Cosby Show," the film "New Jack City," and the television series "Tyler Perry's House of Payne."
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A.
Fred C. Dobbs
Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
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B.
Henry N. Parsley Jr.
Henry N. Parsley Jr. is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Episcopal Church and his tenure guiding the Diocese of Alabama.
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C.
Ralph Izard
Ralph Izard was an American statesman and U.S. Senator from South Carolina who played a prominent role in the early federal government after the American Revolution.
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D.
Louis T. Wigfall
Louis T. Wigfall was a prominent Texas politician and Confederate general during the American Civil War, known for his fiery oratory and staunch secessionist views.
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E.
James B. Cobb Jr.
James B. Cobb Jr. is an American songwriter and guitarist best known as a member of the Classics IV and the Atlanta Rhythm Section, co-writing several soft rock and pop hits of the late 1960s and 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Payne ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Allen ⓘ |
| hasRole |
C.J. Payne
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Gee Money ⓘ Jason Alexander in Jason's Lyric ⓘ Lance Rodman ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
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film industry ⓘ television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role as C.J. Payne in Tyler Perry's House of Payne
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role as Gee Money in New Jack City ⓘ role as Lance Rodman on The Cosby Show ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Allen Payne ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jason's Lyric
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New Jack City ⓘ The Cosby Show ⓘ Tyler Perry's House of Payne ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of New Jack City
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cast of The Cosby Show ⓘ cast of Tyler Perry's House of Payne ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Allen Payne Description of subject: Allen Payne is an American actor best known for his roles in the sitcom "The Cosby Show," the film "New Jack City," and the television series "Tyler Perry's House of Payne."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.