Dylan McDermott
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Dylan McDermott is an American actor best known for his roles in the legal drama "The Practice" and the anthology series "American Horror Story."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dylan McDermott canonical | 37 |
| Dylan McDermott as Jimmy Leach | 1 |
| Jack Larsen – Dylan McDermott | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1180946 — 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: Dylan McDermott Context triple: [Home for the Holidays, castMember, Dylan McDermott]
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A.
Donald Faison
Donald Faison is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Dr. Christopher Turk on the television series "Scrubs."
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B.
Luke Goss
Luke Goss is an English actor and former drummer best known for his roles in genre films such as "Blade II" and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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C.
Dennis Franz
Dennis Franz is an American actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Detective Andy Sipowicz on the television series "NYPD Blue."
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D.
Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher is an American actor acclaimed for his powerful dramatic roles and his Emmy-winning performances in both television and film.
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E.
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Josh Lyman on the political drama series "The West Wing."
- 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: Dylan McDermott Target entity description: Dylan McDermott is an American actor best known for his roles in the legal drama "The Practice" and the anthology series "American Horror Story."
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A.
Donald Faison
Donald Faison is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Dr. Christopher Turk on the television series "Scrubs."
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B.
Luke Goss
Luke Goss is an English actor and former drummer best known for his roles in genre films such as "Blade II" and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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C.
Dennis Franz
Dennis Franz is an American actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Detective Andy Sipowicz on the television series "NYPD Blue."
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D.
Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher is an American actor acclaimed for his powerful dramatic roles and his Emmy-winning performances in both television and film.
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E.
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as Josh Lyman on the political drama series "The West Wing."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Dylan McDermott Description of subject: Dylan McDermott is an American actor best known for his roles in the legal drama "The Practice" and the anthology series "American Horror Story."
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Wonderland"
subject linked to:
“Halloween (Part 1)”
subject linked to:
Hostages (TV series)
subject linked to:
Hostages (TV series)
linked to: Dylan McDermott
subject linked to:
Bobby Donnell in The Practice
subject linked to:
Johnny Morgan in American Horror Story: Asylum
linked to: Dylan McDermott
subject linked to:
Edison (2005 film)