Taye Diggs
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Taye Diggs is an American actor and singer known for his roles in Broadway musicals like "Rent" and films such as "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and "The Best Man."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Taye Diggs canonical | 50 |
| Taye Diggs (Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway, gender-swapped performance in some productions) | 1 |
| Taye Diggs is an author | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1502125 — 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: Taye Diggs Context triple: [Idina Menzel, spouse, Taye Diggs]
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A.
Joseph LaShelle
Joseph LaShelle was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for winning an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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B.
Simon Channing Williams
Simon Channing Williams was a British film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Mike Leigh on acclaimed independent films such as "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
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C.
Aldis Hodge
Aldis Hodge is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including prominent performances in projects like "Leverage," "One Night in Miami...," and "Black Adam."
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D.
Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance is an American actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
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E.
Andrew Rannells
Andrew Rannells is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated Broadway work in shows like The Book of Mormon and his roles in television series such as Girls and Black Monday.
- 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: Taye Diggs Target entity description: Taye Diggs is an American actor and singer known for his roles in Broadway musicals like "Rent" and films such as "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and "The Best Man."
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A.
Joseph LaShelle
Joseph LaShelle was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films and for winning an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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B.
Simon Channing Williams
Simon Channing Williams was a British film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Mike Leigh on acclaimed independent films such as "Secrets & Lies" and "Vera Drake."
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C.
Aldis Hodge
Aldis Hodge is an American actor known for his versatile film and television roles, including prominent performances in projects like "Leverage," "One Night in Miami...," and "Black Adam."
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D.
Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance is an American actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent."
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E.
Andrew Rannells
Andrew Rannells is an American actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated Broadway work in shows like The Book of Mormon and his roles in television series such as Girls and Black Monday.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Taye Diggs Description of subject: Taye Diggs is an American actor and singer known for his roles in Broadway musicals like "Rent" and films such as "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and "The Best Man."
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Broadway production of "Rent"
subject linked to:
Chicago (film musical)
Mimi Marquez
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portrayedBy
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Taye Diggs (Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway, gender-swapped performance in some productions)
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linked to: Taye Diggs
subject linked to:
film "Brown Sugar"
subject linked to:
Winston Shakespeare in How Stella Got Her Groove Back
subject linked to:
Harper Stewart in The Best Man
subject linked to:
Inspector Terrence English in Murder in the First
subject linked to:
Coach Billy Baker in All American
linked to: Taye Diggs
subject linked to:
Rent (stage production)
subject linked to:
film "Go"