Clark Johnson
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Clark Johnson is a Canadian-American actor and director known for his work on acclaimed television series such as "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Street."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clark Johnson canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9835494 — 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: Clark Johnson Context triple: [Boycott, director, Clark Johnson]
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A.
Jack Daugherty
Jack Daugherty was an American record producer best known for his work with the Carpenters, including producing their breakthrough hit "(They Long to Be) Close to You."
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B.
Cole Palen
Cole Palen was an American aviation enthusiast and collector best known for creating and operating the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, a living museum of vintage aircraft and early aviation history.
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C.
Charles Brust
Charles Brust was the husband of American film and radio actress Rochelle Hudson.
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D.
Mark Ellam
Mark Ellam is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "The Take."
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E.
Matt Bondurant
Matt Bondurant is an American novelist and academic best known for his historical crime novel "The Wettest County in the World," which was adapted into the film "Lawless."
- 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: Clark Johnson Target entity description: Clark Johnson is a Canadian-American actor and director known for his work on acclaimed television series such as "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Street."
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A.
Jack Daugherty
Jack Daugherty was an American record producer best known for his work with the Carpenters, including producing their breakthrough hit "(They Long to Be) Close to You."
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B.
Cole Palen
Cole Palen was an American aviation enthusiast and collector best known for creating and operating the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, a living museum of vintage aircraft and early aviation history.
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C.
Charles Brust
Charles Brust was the husband of American film and radio actress Rochelle Hudson.
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D.
Mark Ellam
Mark Ellam is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "The Take."
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E.
Matt Bondurant
Matt Bondurant is an American novelist and academic best known for his historical crime novel "The Wettest County in the World," which was adapted into the film "Lawless."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| actedIn |
E.R.
NERFINISHED
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Homicide: Life on the Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Heat NERFINISHED ⓘ Nurse.Fighter.Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ S.W.A.T. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sentinel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| directed |
E.R.
NERFINISHED
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Homeland NERFINISHED ⓘ Homicide: Life on the Street NERFINISHED ⓘ NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ S.W.A.T. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ The West Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkDirected |
crime drama
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police procedural ⓘ political drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
appearing as an actor in "Homicide: Life on the Street"
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directing episodes of "Homicide: Life on the Street" ⓘ directing episodes of "The Wire" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
E.R.
NERFINISHED
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Homeland NERFINISHED ⓘ Homicide: Life on the Street NERFINISHED ⓘ NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Heat NERFINISHED ⓘ S.W.A.T. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shield NERFINISHED ⓘ The West Wing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
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: Clark Johnson Description of subject: Clark Johnson is a Canadian-American actor and director known for his work on acclaimed television series such as "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Street."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.