Blair Underwood
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Blair Underwood is an American actor known for his versatile performances in television, film, and theater, including acclaimed dramatic roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blair Underwood canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6091917 — 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: Blair Underwood Context triple: [In Treatment, starring, Blair Underwood]
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A.
Eriq La Salle
Eriq La Salle is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Dr. Peter Benton on the television series "ER."
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B.
Alexis Denisof
Alexis Denisof is an American actor best known for his role as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off "Angel."
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C.
Timothy Busfield
Timothy Busfield is an American actor and director best known for his roles in television series such as "thirtysomething," "The West Wing," and various film and stage productions.
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D.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
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E.
Jason Mitchell
Jason Mitchell is an American actor known for his breakout role as Eazy-E in "Straight Outta Compton" and appearances in films such as "Mudbound" and "Kong: Skull Island."
- 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: Blair Underwood Target entity description: Blair Underwood is an American actor known for his versatile performances in television, film, and theater, including acclaimed dramatic roles.
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A.
Eriq La Salle
Eriq La Salle is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Dr. Peter Benton on the television series "ER."
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B.
Alexis Denisof
Alexis Denisof is an American actor best known for his role as Wesley Wyndam-Pryce in the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-off "Angel."
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C.
Timothy Busfield
Timothy Busfield is an American actor and director best known for his roles in television series such as "thirtysomething," "The West Wing," and various film and stage productions.
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D.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
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E.
Jason Mitchell
Jason Mitchell is an American actor known for his breakout role as Eazy-E in "Straight Outta Compton" and appearances in films such as "Mudbound" and "Kong: Skull Island."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award nomination
NERFINISHED
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NAACP Image Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-08-25 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Carnegie Mellon University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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legal drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Blair Underwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Alex Prince on Sex and the City
NERFINISHED
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Dr. Alex Prince on In Treatment NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Rollins on L.A. Law NERFINISHED ⓘ President Elias Martinez on The Event NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
NERFINISHED
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Dear White People NERFINISHED ⓘ Deep Impact NERFINISHED ⓘ Gattaca NERFINISHED ⓘ In Treatment NERFINISHED ⓘ Just Cause NERFINISHED ⓘ L.A. Law NERFINISHED ⓘ Quantico NERFINISHED ⓘ Set It Off NERFINISHED ⓘ Sex and the City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Event NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tacoma, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Desiree DaCosta 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: Blair Underwood Description of subject: Blair Underwood is an American actor known for his versatile performances in television, film, and theater, including acclaimed dramatic roles.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Origin (2023 film)
subject surface form:
The Trip to Bountiful (2014 television film)