Perry Cox
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Perry Cox is a sarcastic, tough-love attending physician and mentor on the medical comedy-drama series "Scrubs."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perry Cox canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9578866 — 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: Perry Cox Context triple: [Scrubs, mainCharacter, Perry Cox]
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A.
Bill DeMott
Bill DeMott is a retired American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and WWE, including a controversial tenure as head trainer for WWE’s developmental system.
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B.
Will McDonough
Will McDonough is an American sports journalist best known for his long tenure as an NFL reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe and as a pioneering football analyst on national television.
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C.
Perry Howze
Perry Howze is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1988 romantic comedy film "Mystic Pizza."
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D.
Ward Poulos
Ward Poulos is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online employment marketplace ZipRecruiter.
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E.
Donald McEnery
Donald McEnery is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Pixar animated film "A Bug's Life."
- 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: Perry Cox Target entity description: Perry Cox is a sarcastic, tough-love attending physician and mentor on the medical comedy-drama series "Scrubs."
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A.
Bill DeMott
Bill DeMott is a retired American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and WWE, including a controversial tenure as head trainer for WWE’s developmental system.
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B.
Will McDonough
Will McDonough is an American sports journalist best known for his long tenure as an NFL reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe and as a pioneering football analyst on national television.
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C.
Perry Howze
Perry Howze is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1988 romantic comedy film "Mystic Pizza."
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D.
Ward Poulos
Ward Poulos is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online employment marketplace ZipRecruiter.
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E.
Donald McEnery
Donald McEnery is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Pixar animated film "A Bug's Life."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| alcoholOfChoice | beer ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Scrubs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scrubs: Med School (season 9) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| becomes | chief of medicine at Sacred Heart Hospital ⓘ |
| characterType | antihero ⓘ |
| closeTo | Carla Espinosa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Bill Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Sacred Heart Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exSpouse | Jordan Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Scrubs universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Scrubs season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceEpisode | My First Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf | Ben Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Percival Ulysses Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Jack Cox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jennifer Dylan Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedicalDegreeFrom | fictional medical school (unspecified in series) ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Paige Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mentorOf |
Christopher Turk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elliot Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ John Dorian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
calling J.D. by girls’ names
ⓘ
long rants and monologues ⓘ |
| occupation |
attending physician
ⓘ
doctor ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
caring
ⓘ
cynical ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ tough-love ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John C. McGinley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | chief of medicine ⓘ |
| role | mentor ⓘ |
| specialty | internal medicine ⓘ |
| spouse | Jordan Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Dr. ⓘ |
| worksAt | Sacred Heart Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Bob Kelso
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carla Espinosa NERFINISHED ⓘ The Janitor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Perry Cox Description of subject: Perry Cox is a sarcastic, tough-love attending physician and mentor on the medical comedy-drama series "Scrubs."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.