Jermaine Hopkins
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Jermaine Hopkins is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Juice" and "Lean on Me," where he often portrayed streetwise urban youth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jermaine Hopkins canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6478567 — 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: Jermaine Hopkins Context triple: [Juice, starring, Jermaine Hopkins]
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A.
Damon Harris
Damon Harris was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his work as a falsetto vocalist with The Temptations during the early 1970s.
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B.
Akeem Browder
Akeem Browder is an American activist and advocate for criminal justice reform, known for his work following the wrongful incarceration and tragic death of his younger brother, Kalief Browder.
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C.
Akeem Joffer
Akeem Joffer is the fictional crown prince of the African nation of Zamunda and main protagonist of the comedy film "Coming to America."
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D.
Jermain Baxter
Jermain Baxter is the birth name of the American rapper better known by his stage name Nature, associated with the New York hip-hop scene.
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E.
Jamael Orondé Barber
Jamael Orondé Barber, better known as Ronde Barber, is a former NFL cornerback renowned for his long, standout career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and his role in their Super Bowl XXXVII victory.
- 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: Jermaine Hopkins Target entity description: Jermaine Hopkins is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Juice" and "Lean on Me," where he often portrayed streetwise urban youth.
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A.
Damon Harris
Damon Harris was an American soul and R&B singer best known for his work as a falsetto vocalist with The Temptations during the early 1970s.
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B.
Akeem Browder
Akeem Browder is an American activist and advocate for criminal justice reform, known for his work following the wrongful incarceration and tragic death of his younger brother, Kalief Browder.
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C.
Akeem Joffer
Akeem Joffer is the fictional crown prince of the African nation of Zamunda and main protagonist of the comedy film "Coming to America."
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D.
Jermain Baxter
Jermain Baxter is the birth name of the American rapper better known by his stage name Nature, associated with the New York hip-hop scene.
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E.
Jamael Orondé Barber
Jamael Orondé Barber, better known as Ronde Barber, is a former NFL cornerback renowned for his long, standout career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and his role in their Super Bowl XXXVII victory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ |
| characterInWork |
Steel in Juice
ⓘ
linked to:
Juice
Thomas Sams in Lean on Me ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Hopkins ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy films
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crime films ⓘ drama films ⓘ |
| givenName | Jermaine ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0394247 ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying streetwise urban youth characters ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Jermaine Hopkins ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Def Jam's How to Be a Player
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How to Be a Player ⓘ Juice ⓘ Law & Order ⓘ Lean on Me ⓘ Phat Beach ⓘ The Parent 'Hood ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Steel
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Thomas Sams ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jermaine Hopkins Description of subject: Jermaine Hopkins is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Juice" and "Lean on Me," where he often portrayed streetwise urban youth.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.