Kevin Dobson
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Kevin Dobson was an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as Kojak and Knots Landing.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kevin Dobson canonical | 5 |
| Jack Phillips | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7530242 — 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: Kevin Dobson Context triple: [Knots Landing, starring, Kevin Dobson]
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A.
John Batchelor
John Batchelor is an Australian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre.
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B.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin is a conservative American lawyer, author, and talk radio and television host known for his outspoken commentary on U.S. politics and constitutional issues.
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C.
Kevin Barrett
Kevin Barrett is a former New Zealand rugby union player and Taranaki stalwart, best known as the father of All Blacks stars including Beauden Barrett.
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D.
Steve Jolley
Steve Jolley is a British songwriter and record producer best known as part of the 1980s pop production and writing duo Jolley & Swain, who worked with artists such as Bananarama and Spandau Ballet.
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E.
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer and percussionist best known for his work with Santana, including his iconic performance at Woodstock and contributions to their classic early albums.
- 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: Kevin Dobson Target entity description: Kevin Dobson was an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as Kojak and Knots Landing.
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A.
John Batchelor
John Batchelor is an Australian actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre.
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B.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin is a conservative American lawyer, author, and talk radio and television host known for his outspoken commentary on U.S. politics and constitutional issues.
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C.
Kevin Barrett
Kevin Barrett is a former New Zealand rugby union player and Taranaki stalwart, best known as the father of All Blacks stars including Beauden Barrett.
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D.
Steve Jolley
Steve Jolley is a British songwriter and record producer best known as part of the 1980s pop production and writing duo Jolley & Swain, who worked with artists such as Bananarama and Spandau Ballet.
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E.
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer and percussionist best known for his work with Santana, including his iconic performance at Woodstock and contributions to their classic early albums.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1960s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-03-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-09-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dobson ⓘ |
| genre | drama television ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role as Bobby Crocker on Kojak
ⓘ
role as Mack MacKenzie on Knots Landing ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Dobson ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Knots Landing
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Kojak ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Queens, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Stockton, California, United States
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linked to:
Stockton
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| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Army ⓘ |
| spouse | Susan Dobson ⓘ |
| televisionRole |
Detective Bobby Crocker in Kojak
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M. Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie in Knots Landing ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Knots Landing
ⓘ
Kojak ⓘ |
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: Kevin Dobson Description of subject: Kevin Dobson was an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as Kojak and Knots Landing.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.