Sonny Black
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Sonny Black was the underworld nickname of Dominick Napolitano, a prominent Bonanno crime family capo involved in the infamous Donnie Brasco FBI infiltration case.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sonny Black canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10357727 — 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)
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Target entity: Sonny Black Context triple: [Dominick Napolitano, nickname, Sonny Black]
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A.
Sonny
Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Siebert, a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Sonny
Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Jurgensen, a Hall of Fame American football quarterback best known for his prolific passing career with the Washington Redskins.
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C.
Sonny
Sonny is an American former sports marketing executive best known for his pioneering work in basketball shoe endorsement deals, including helping launch Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan.
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D.
Sonny
Sonny is a fictional professional football general manager portrayed by Kevin Costner in the 2014 sports drama film "Draft Day."
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E.
Sonny
Sonny is a central character in the television drama series "Treme," which explores life and music in post-Katrina New Orleans.
- 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: Sonny Black Target entity description: Sonny Black was the underworld nickname of Dominick Napolitano, a prominent Bonanno crime family capo involved in the infamous Donnie Brasco FBI infiltration case.
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A.
Sonny
Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Siebert, a former Major League Baseball pitcher known for his successful career in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Sonny
Sonny is the nickname of Sonny Jurgensen, a Hall of Fame American football quarterback best known for his prolific passing career with the Washington Redskins.
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C.
Sonny
Sonny is a fictional professional football general manager portrayed by Kevin Costner in the 2014 sports drama film "Draft Day."
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D.
Sonny
Sonny is a central character in the television drama series "Treme," which explores life and music in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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E.
Sonny
Sonny is an American former sports marketing executive best known for his pioneering work in basketball shoe endorsement deals, including helping launch Nike’s partnership with Michael Jordan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bonanno crime family member
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Mafia capo ⓘ human ⓘ mobster ⓘ |
| activeIn | New York City underworld ⓘ |
| activityPeak |
1970s
ⓘ
early 1980s ⓘ |
| alias | Sonny Black ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Benjamin "Lefty" Ruggiero
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linked to:
Lefty Ruggiero
Donnie Brasco ⓘ FBI undercover agent Joseph D. Pistone ⓘ
linked to:
Joseph D. Pistone
Joseph Massino ⓘ Philip Rastelli ⓘ |
| burialPlace | United States (body discovered in Staten Island marsh) ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
gunshot wounds
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homicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge |
extortion
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illegal gambling ⓘ loan sharking ⓘ racketeering ⓘ |
| criminalOrganization | Bonanno crime family ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-06-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-08-17 ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Italian-American ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | organized crime ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
FBI undercover operation Donnie Brasco
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linked to:
Donnie Brasco
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| killedBy |
Bonanno crime family members
ⓘ
linked to:
Bonanno crime family
|
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bonanno crime family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the Donnie Brasco case
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role in FBI infiltration of the Bonanno family ⓘ |
| occupation |
caporegime
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mobster ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
New York City, New York, United States ⓘ Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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| placeOfDeath |
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
New York City, New York, United States ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| portrayedBy | Michael Madsen ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
film "Donnie Brasco"
ⓘ
linked to:
Donnie Brasco
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| realName | Dominick Napolitano ⓘ |
| reasonForDeath | retaliation for Donnie Brasco infiltration ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| roleInOrganization | caporegime in the Bonanno family ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
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: Sonny Black Description of subject: Sonny Black was the underworld nickname of Dominick Napolitano, a prominent Bonanno crime family capo involved in the infamous Donnie Brasco FBI infiltration case.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Sonny Black