Mike Evans
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American actor
American television writer
actor
person
screenwriter
television actor
television writer
Mike Evans was an American actor and television writer best known for originating the role of Lionel Jefferson on "All in the Family" and co-creating the sitcom "Good Times."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Evans canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408739 — 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: Mike Evans Context triple: [Good Times, creator, Mike Evans]
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A.
Mike Evans
Mike Evans is an American football wide receiver renowned for his consistent Pro Bowl-caliber play and record-setting consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons in the NFL.
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B.
DeMeco Ryans
DeMeco Ryans is a former NFL linebacker who became a highly regarded defensive coach and is now an NFL head coach.
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C.
James Patrick Edmonds
James Patrick Edmonds is a former Major League Baseball center fielder best known for his outstanding defensive play and multiple All-Star and Gold Glove selections, primarily with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
David Montgomery
David Montgomery is the son of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and a member of the British aristocracy.
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E.
Jackson Graham
Jackson Graham was an American civil engineer and U.S. Army officer who became the first general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
- 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: Mike Evans Target entity description: Mike Evans was an American actor and television writer best known for originating the role of Lionel Jefferson on "All in the Family" and co-creating the sitcom "Good Times."
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A.
Mike Evans
Mike Evans is an American football wide receiver renowned for his consistent Pro Bowl-caliber play and record-setting consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons in the NFL.
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B.
DeMeco Ryans
DeMeco Ryans is a former NFL linebacker who became a highly regarded defensive coach and is now an NFL head coach.
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C.
James Patrick Edmonds
James Patrick Edmonds is a former Major League Baseball center fielder best known for his outstanding defensive play and multiple All-Star and Gold Glove selections, primarily with the St. Louis Cardinals.
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D.
David Montgomery
David Montgomery is the son of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and a member of the British aristocracy.
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E.
Jackson Graham
Jackson Graham was an American civil engineer and U.S. Army officer who became the first general manager of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
American television writer ⓘ actor ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| activeIn | television ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | throat cancer ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Good Times ⓘ |
| coCreatorWith | Eric Monte ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-11-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-12-14 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
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| familyName | Evans ⓘ |
| fullName |
Michael Jonas Evans
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linked to:
Michael Lynn Evans III
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| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Lionel Jefferson ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-creating the sitcom Good Times
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originating the role of Lionel Jefferson on All in the Family ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All in the Family
ⓘ
Good Times ⓘ The Jeffersons ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of All in the Family
ⓘ
cast of The Jeffersons ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Salisbury, North Carolina, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Salisbury, North Carolina
|
| placeOfDeath |
Twentynine Palms, California, United States
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linked to:
Twentynine Palms, California
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| portrayedIn |
All in the Family
ⓘ
The Jeffersons ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| role | Lionel Jefferson ⓘ |
| spouse | Helene Evans ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Eric Monte
ⓘ
Norman Lear ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–2000s ⓘ |
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: Mike Evans Description of subject: Mike Evans was an American actor and television writer best known for originating the role of Lionel Jefferson on "All in the Family" and co-creating the sitcom "Good Times."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.