Ossie Davis
E154890
actor
civil rights activist
film actor
film director
human
playwright
screenwriter
stage actor
television actor
theatre director
voice actor
Ossie Davis was an acclaimed American actor, director, playwright, and civil rights activist known for his powerful performances on stage and screen and his outspoken commitment to social justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ossie Davis canonical | 55 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1348334 — 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: Ossie Davis Context triple: [Spike Lee, influencedBy, Ossie Davis]
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A.
Charles Durning
Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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B.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. was an acclaimed American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role in the miniseries "Roots" and his Oscar-winning performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
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C.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams is an American actress and singer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including her acclaimed performances in musical theater and dramatic roles.
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D.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer, and director best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
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E.
Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known as the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
- 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: Ossie Davis Target entity description: Ossie Davis was an acclaimed American actor, director, playwright, and civil rights activist known for his powerful performances on stage and screen and his outspoken commitment to social justice.
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A.
Charles Durning
Charles Durning was an American character actor known for his prolific film and television career, including acclaimed roles in works like "Dog Day Afternoon," "Tootsie," and "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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B.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. was an acclaimed American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role in the miniseries "Roots" and his Oscar-winning performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman."
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C.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams is an American actress and singer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including her acclaimed performances in musical theater and dramatic roles.
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D.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer, and director best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
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E.
Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer, and comedian best known as the first African American to win an Academy Award for her role in "Gone with the Wind."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Ossie Davis Description of subject: Ossie Davis was an acclaimed American actor, director, playwright, and civil rights activist known for his powerful performances on stage and screen and his outspoken commitment to social justice.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York, United States
subject linked to:
Ossie Davis
subject linked to:
Disney's 2000 film "Dinosaur" (branding tie-in)
subject linked to:
The Defenders
subject linked to:
Car 54, Where Are You? (TV series)