Wilson Cruz
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Wilson Cruz is an American actor and LGBTQ+ advocate best known for his groundbreaking role as Rickie Vasquez on the television series "My So-Called Life."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Wilson Cruz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6153079 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Wilson Cruz Context triple: [My So-Called Life, starring, Wilson Cruz]
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A.
Joel Negron
Joel Negron is a professional film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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B.
René Elizondo Jr.
René Elizondo Jr. is a Mexican-born music video director, songwriter, and dancer best known for his long-term romantic and creative partnership with pop icon Janet Jackson.
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C.
Gerónimo Peña
Gerónimo Peña is a former Dominican professional baseball second baseman who played in Major League Baseball in the 1990s, primarily for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
Gabriel Basso
Gabriel Basso is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Super 8" and the Netflix series "The Night Agent."
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E.
Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos is an American actor and television personality best known for his role on the soap opera "All My Children" and for co-hosting the morning talk show "Live with Kelly and Mark" alongside his wife Kelly Ripa.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Wilson Cruz Target entity description: Wilson Cruz is an American actor and LGBTQ+ advocate best known for his groundbreaking role as Rickie Vasquez on the television series "My So-Called Life."
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A.
Joel Negron
Joel Negron is a professional film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the adventure film "Jungle Cruise."
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B.
René Elizondo Jr.
René Elizondo Jr. is a Mexican-born music video director, songwriter, and dancer best known for his long-term romantic and creative partnership with pop icon Janet Jackson.
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C.
Gerónimo Peña
Gerónimo Peña is a former Dominican professional baseball second baseman who played in Major League Baseball in the 1990s, primarily for the St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
Gabriel Basso
Gabriel Basso is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Super 8" and the Netflix series "The Night Agent."
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E.
Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos is an American actor and television personality best known for his role on the soap opera "All My Children" and for co-hosting the morning talk show "Live with Kelly and Mark" alongside his wife Kelly Ripa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBTQ+ activist
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| advocacyFocus |
HIV/AIDS awareness
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LGBTQ+ youth ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
13 Reasons Why
NERFINISHED
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He's Just Not That Into You NERFINISHED ⓘ Joyride NERFINISHED ⓘ My So-Called Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Noah's Arc NERFINISHED ⓘ Party of Five NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1973-12-27 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Puerto Rican American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cruz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLGBTIdentity | yes ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Spanish ⓘ |
| name | Wilson Cruz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | pioneering Latino LGBTQ+ representation on American television ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first openly gay actors to play an openly gay teenager on U.S. network television ⓘ |
| notableWork |
13 Reasons Why
NERFINISHED
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My So-Called Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Noah's Arc NERFINISHED ⓘ Party of Five NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
LGBTQ+ advocate
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actor ⓘ producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| role |
Dr. Hugh Culber in Star Trek: Discovery
NERFINISHED
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Junito in Noah's Arc NERFINISHED ⓘ Rickie Vasquez in My So-Called Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor in Party of Five ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| socialMediaPlatform |
Instagram
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Twitter, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
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| website | https://wilsoncruz.com ⓘ |
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: Wilson Cruz Description of subject: Wilson Cruz is an American actor and LGBTQ+ advocate best known for his groundbreaking role as Rickie Vasquez on the television series "My So-Called Life."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.