portraying Franklin Saint in Snowfall
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Damson Idris is a British actor best known for his acclaimed lead role in the crime drama television series "Snowfall."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| portraying Franklin Saint in Snowfall canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6527107 — 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: portraying Franklin Saint in Snowfall Context triple: [Damson Idris, knownFor, portraying Franklin Saint in Snowfall]
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A.
Forest Whitaker as Reverend Cornell Cobbs
Forest Whitaker as Reverend Cornell Cobbs is a fictional clergyman character portrayed by Forest Whitaker, notable as the husband of Angela Bassett’s character Aretha Cobbs.
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B.
Donald Faison
Donald Faison is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Dr. Christopher Turk on the television series "Scrubs."
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C.
Wendell Pierce
Wendell Pierce is an American actor best known for his roles in acclaimed television series such as "The Wire," "Treme," and "Suits."
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D.
Mekhi Phifer
Mekhi Phifer is an American actor known for his roles in films like "8 Mile" and the TV series "ER," as well as his work in various crime and drama television shows.
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E.
Titus Welliver
Titus Welliver is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Bosch" and "Deadwood," as well as numerous film and TV character roles.
- 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: portraying Franklin Saint in Snowfall Target entity description: Damson Idris is a British actor best known for his acclaimed lead role in the crime drama television series "Snowfall."
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A.
Forest Whitaker as Reverend Cornell Cobbs
Forest Whitaker as Reverend Cornell Cobbs is a fictional clergyman character portrayed by Forest Whitaker, notable as the husband of Angela Bassett’s character Aretha Cobbs.
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B.
Donald Faison
Donald Faison is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Dr. Christopher Turk on the television series "Scrubs."
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C.
Wendell Pierce
Wendell Pierce is an American actor best known for his roles in acclaimed television series such as "The Wire," "Treme," and "Suits."
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D.
Mekhi Phifer
Mekhi Phifer is an American actor known for his roles in films like "8 Mile" and the TV series "ER," as well as his work in various crime and drama television shows.
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E.
Titus Welliver
Titus Welliver is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Bosch" and "Deadwood," as well as numerous film and TV character roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film acting
ⓘ
television acting ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Franklin Saint ⓘ |
| characterEraOfFranklinSaint | 1980s ⓘ |
| characterOccupationOfFranklinSaint | drug dealer ⓘ |
| characterSettingOfFranklinSaint | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genreOfNotableWork | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| hasRoleType | lead role ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Franklin Saint in Snowfall ⓘ |
| leadRoleIn | Snowfall ⓘ |
| mediumOfNotableWork | television ⓘ |
| name | Damson Idris ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| networkOfSnowfall | FX ⓘ |
| notableWork | Snowfall ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| performanceReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Franklin Saint ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Snowfall ⓘ |
| portraysProtagonistIn | Snowfall ⓘ |
| seriesCreatorOfSnowfall |
Dave Andron
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Eric Amadio ⓘ John Singleton ⓘ |
| seriesFormatOfSnowfall | serialized narrative ⓘ |
| seriesGenreOfSnowfall | crime drama ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: portraying Franklin Saint in Snowfall Description of subject: Damson Idris is a British actor best known for his acclaimed lead role in the crime drama television series "Snowfall."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.