David Zayas
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David Zayas is a Puerto Rican-American actor best known for playing Detective Angel Batista on the television series "Dexter."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Zayas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6222422 — 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: David Zayas Context triple: [Dexter, castMember, David Zayas]
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A.
Jaime Carbonell
Jaime Carbonell was a prominent computer scientist and pioneer in machine learning and natural language processing, best known for founding the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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B.
Jaime Pressly
Jaime Pressly is an American actress and model best known for her Emmy-winning role as Joy Turner on the television sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
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C.
Jorge Garcia
Jorge Garcia is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the television series Lost.
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D.
Gabriel Macht
Gabriel Macht is an American actor best known for his lead role as Harvey Specter in the television series "Suits" and for portraying the title character in the film "The Spirit."
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E.
Zawe Ashton
Zawe Ashton is a British actress, playwright, and director known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects like "Fresh Meat" and "Velvet Buzzsaw."
- 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: David Zayas Target entity description: David Zayas is a Puerto Rican-American actor best known for playing Detective Angel Batista on the television series "Dexter."
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A.
Jaime Carbonell
Jaime Carbonell was a prominent computer scientist and pioneer in machine learning and natural language processing, best known for founding the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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B.
Jaime Pressly
Jaime Pressly is an American actress and model best known for her Emmy-winning role as Joy Turner on the television sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
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C.
Jorge Garcia
Jorge Garcia is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on the television series Lost.
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D.
Gabriel Macht
Gabriel Macht is an American actor best known for his lead role as Harvey Specter in the television series "Suits" and for portraying the title character in the film "The Spirit."
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E.
Zawe Ashton
Zawe Ashton is a British actress, playwright, and director known for her work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects like "Fresh Meat" and "Velvet Buzzsaw."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Annie (2014 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blue Bloods NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Clayton NERFINISHED ⓘ NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Person of Interest NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blacklist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Dexter (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayed |
Detective Angel Batista
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Enrique Morales NERFINISHED ⓘ General Garza NERFINISHED ⓘ Sal Maroni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1962-08-15 ⓘ |
| employer | Showtime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicIdentity | Latino ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Puerto Rican ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | police officer ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| name | David Zayas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Angel Batista NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dexter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gotham NERFINISHED ⓘ Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ The Expendables NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ponce, Puerto Rico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Liza Colón-Zayas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
James Remar
NERFINISHED
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Jennifer Carpenter NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael C. Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–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: David Zayas Description of subject: David Zayas is a Puerto Rican-American actor best known for playing Detective Angel Batista on the television series "Dexter."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.