Danny Costanzo
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Danny Costanzo is a wisecracking Chicago police detective portrayed by Billy Crystal in the 1986 action-comedy film "Running Scared."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Costanzo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6271088 — 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: Danny Costanzo Context triple: [Running Scared (1986 film), mainCharacter, Danny Costanzo]
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A.
Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante was a beloved American comedian, actor, and singer known for his gravelly voice, prominent nose, and exuberant stage and screen persona.
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B.
Joey Bishop
Joey Bishop was an American comedian, actor, and talk show host best known as a core member of the Rat Pack alongside Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford.
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C.
Len Goodman
Len Goodman was a British professional ballroom dancer and television personality best known as a long-serving head judge on popular dance competition shows.
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D.
Vic Damone
Vic Damone was an American traditional pop and big band singer and entertainer known for his smooth baritone voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Mae Costello
Mae Costello was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century and the mother of actress Helene Costello.
- 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: Danny Costanzo Target entity description: Danny Costanzo is a wisecracking Chicago police detective portrayed by Billy Crystal in the 1986 action-comedy film "Running Scared."
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A.
Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante was a beloved American comedian, actor, and singer known for his gravelly voice, prominent nose, and exuberant stage and screen persona.
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B.
Joey Bishop
Joey Bishop was an American comedian, actor, and talk show host best known as a core member of the Rat Pack alongside Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford.
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C.
Len Goodman
Len Goodman was a British professional ballroom dancer and television personality best known as a long-serving head judge on popular dance competition shows.
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D.
Vic Damone
Vic Damone was an American traditional pop and big band singer and entertainer known for his smooth baritone voice and romantic ballads, particularly popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
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E.
Mae Costello
Mae Costello was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century and the mother of actress Helene Costello.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film ⓘ film character ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Running Scared ⓘ |
| characterTrait | wisecracking ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Running Scared ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Running Scared ⓘ |
| genre |
action-comedy
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action-comedy film ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Running Scared ⓘ |
| occupation |
Chicago police detective
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actor ⓘ police detective ⓘ |
| partner | Ray Hughes ⓘ |
| policeDepartment |
Chicago Police Department
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago police
|
| portrayedBy |
Billy Crystal
ⓘ
Gregory Hines ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Chicago ⓘ |
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: Danny Costanzo Description of subject: Danny Costanzo is a wisecracking Chicago police detective portrayed by Billy Crystal in the 1986 action-comedy film "Running Scared."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Running Scared