John Diehl
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John Diehl is an American character actor best known for his role as Detective Larry Zito on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Diehl canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9983826 — 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: John Diehl Context triple: [Miami Vice, starring, John Diehl]
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A.
Frank Doelger
Frank Doelger is a television producer best known for his work on the acclaimed HBO fantasy series "Game of Thrones."
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B.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
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C.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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D.
David Ditzel
David Ditzel is a computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Transmeta and for his work on low-power, innovative microprocessor designs.
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E.
John Pehle
John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
- 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: John Diehl Target entity description: John Diehl is an American character actor best known for his role as Detective Larry Zito on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
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A.
Frank Doelger
Frank Doelger is a television producer best known for his work on the acclaimed HBO fantasy series "Game of Thrones."
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B.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
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C.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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D.
David Ditzel
David Ditzel is a computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Transmeta and for his work on low-power, innovative microprocessor designs.
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E.
John Pehle
John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Diehl
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linked to:
Diehl BGT Defence
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| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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television acting ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama television ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasGenre | drama ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of Detective Larry Zito on Miami Vice ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Detective Larry Zito
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Larry Zito ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Miami Vice
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various American films ⓘ various American television series ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Miami Vice ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
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: John Diehl Description of subject: John Diehl is an American character actor best known for his role as Detective Larry Zito on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.