Johnny Lawrence
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Johnny Lawrence is a central character in The Karate Kid franchise and the Cobra Kai series, portrayed as a former teenage bully turned flawed but sympathetic karate sensei seeking redemption.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johnny Lawrence canonical | 3 |
| Johnny Lawrence – William Zabka | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10561113 — 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: Johnny Lawrence Context triple: [Cobra Kai, featuresCharacter, Johnny Lawrence]
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A.
Daniel LaRusso
Daniel LaRusso is the main protagonist of the original "The Karate Kid" film series, a New Jersey teenager who learns karate from Mr. Miyagi to confront bullies and find confidence.
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B.
Casey Tibbs
Casey Tibbs was a legendary American rodeo cowboy and multiple-time world champion bronc rider, widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history.
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C.
Gage Creed
Gage Creed is a young boy whose tragic death and supernatural resurrection drive the central horror and emotional conflict in Stephen King’s novel "Pet Sematary."
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D.
John Dorian
John Dorian is the quirky, idealistic young doctor and narrator at the center of the medical comedy series "Scrubs."
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E.
Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan is an Australian actor and pop singer who rose to fame in the late 1980s through his role on the soap opera "Neighbours" and a successful music career in the UK.
- 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: Johnny Lawrence Target entity description: Johnny Lawrence is a central character in The Karate Kid franchise and the Cobra Kai series, portrayed as a former teenage bully turned flawed but sympathetic karate sensei seeking redemption.
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A.
Daniel LaRusso
Daniel LaRusso is the main protagonist of the original "The Karate Kid" film series, a New Jersey teenager who learns karate from Mr. Miyagi to confront bullies and find confidence.
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B.
Casey Tibbs
Casey Tibbs was a legendary American rodeo cowboy and multiple-time world champion bronc rider, widely regarded as one of the greatest in the sport’s history.
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C.
Gage Creed
Gage Creed is a young boy whose tragic death and supernatural resurrection drive the central horror and emotional conflict in Stephen King’s novel "Pet Sematary."
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D.
John Dorian
John Dorian is the quirky, idealistic young doctor and narrator at the center of the medical comedy series "Scrubs."
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E.
Jason Donovan
Jason Donovan is an Australian actor and pop singer who rose to fame in the late 1980s through his role on the soap opera "Neighbours" and a successful music career in the UK.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Cobra Kai dojo
NERFINISHED
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Eagle Fang Karate NERFINISHED ⓘ Miyagi-Do Karate (allied) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Cobra Kai
NERFINISHED
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The Karate Kid NERFINISHED ⓘ The Karate Kid Part II NERFINISHED ⓘ The Karate Kid Part III (flashback footage) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | antagonist role from The Karate Kid (1984) ⓘ |
| characterArc | former teenage bully seeking redemption ⓘ |
| child | Robby Keene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Robert Mark Kamen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enemy |
John Kreese
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terry Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Karate Kid / Cobra Kai universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Karate Kid (1984) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerStatus |
high school karate champion
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teenage bully ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| loveInterest |
Ali Mills
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carmen Diaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| martialArt | karate ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
founder of Eagle Fang Karate
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loses All Valley Karate Tournament final to Daniel LaRusso in 1984 ⓘ reopens Cobra Kai dojo as an adult ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
hot-headed
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loyal ⓘ rough but caring mentor ⓘ |
| occupation |
auto repairman
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karate sensei ⓘ |
| originalPlatform | YouTube Premium (Cobra Kai seasons 1–2) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | William Zabka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rival | Daniel LaRusso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Reseda, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| streamingPlatform | Netflix (Cobra Kai) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studentOf |
John Kreese
NERFINISHED
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Terry Silver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
Cobra Kai karate
NERFINISHED
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hybrid Eagle Fang / Miyagi-Do approach ⓘ |
| teacherOf |
Hawk (Eli Moskowitz)
NERFINISHED
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Miguel Diaz NERFINISHED ⓘ Robby Keene NERFINISHED ⓘ various Cobra Kai students (Cobra Kai series) ⓘ |
| theme |
redemption
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second chances ⓘ |
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: Johnny Lawrence Description of subject: Johnny Lawrence is a central character in The Karate Kid franchise and the Cobra Kai series, portrayed as a former teenage bully turned flawed but sympathetic karate sensei seeking redemption.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Cobra Kai
this entity surface form:
Johnny Lawrence – William Zabka