James McDaniel
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James McDaniel is an American actor best known for his role as Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television drama series "NYPD Blue."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James McDaniel canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5589240 — 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: James McDaniel Context triple: [NYPD Blue, starredActor, James McDaniel]
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A.
Michael Dorman
Michael Dorman is an Australian actor known for his roles in television series such as "For All Mankind," "Patriot," and "The Secret Life of Us."
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B.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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C.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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D.
Marc McClure
Marc McClure is an American actor best known for playing Jimmy Olsen in the Superman film series and Dave McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.
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E.
John McEntire
John McEntire is an American drummer, producer, and recording engineer best known for his work with experimental and post-rock bands such as Tortoise and The Sea and Cake.
- 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: James McDaniel Target entity description: James McDaniel is an American actor best known for his role as Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television drama series "NYPD Blue."
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A.
Michael Dorman
Michael Dorman is an Australian actor known for his roles in television series such as "For All Mankind," "Patriot," and "The Secret Life of Us."
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B.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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C.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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D.
Marc McClure
Marc McClure is an American actor best known for playing Jimmy Olsen in the Superman film series and Dave McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy.
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E.
John McEntire
John McEntire is an American drummer, producer, and recording engineer best known for his work with experimental and post-rock bands such as Tortoise and The Sea and Cake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| characterPortrayed | Lt. Arthur Fancy ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | McDaniel ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | television drama ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity |
African-American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNotableActivity | appearing in American television dramas ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Lt. Arthur Fancy on NYPD Blue ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | James McDaniel ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Lieutenant Arthur Fancy ⓘ |
| notableWork | NYPD Blue ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of NYPD Blue ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: James McDaniel Description of subject: James McDaniel is an American actor best known for his role as Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television drama series "NYPD Blue."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.