Joseph Mascolo
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Joseph Mascolo was an American actor best known for his long-running role as the villainous Stefano DiMera on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joseph Mascolo canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T995357 — 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: Joseph Mascolo Context triple: [Jaws 2, stars, Joseph Mascolo]
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A.
Michael De Luca
Michael De Luca is an American film producer and studio executive known for overseeing and producing a wide range of major Hollywood films across genres.
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B.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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C.
Andrew Miano
Andrew Miano is an American film producer known for his work on independent and critically acclaimed movies, often collaborating with director Tom Ford and others.
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D.
James Marini
James Marini is an American educator and school administrator who has served as superintendent of the Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.
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E.
Robert Frasca
Robert Frasca was an American architect known for his influential urban and civic designs, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
- 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: Joseph Mascolo Target entity description: Joseph Mascolo was an American actor best known for his long-running role as the villainous Stefano DiMera on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
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A.
Michael De Luca
Michael De Luca is an American film producer and studio executive known for overseeing and producing a wide range of major Hollywood films across genres.
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B.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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C.
Andrew Miano
Andrew Miano is an American film producer known for his work on independent and critically acclaimed movies, often collaborating with director Tom Ford and others.
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D.
James Marini
James Marini is an American educator and school administrator who has served as superintendent of the Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.
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E.
Robert Frasca
Robert Frasca was an American architect known for his influential urban and civic designs, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Days of Our Lives
ⓘ
General Hospital ⓘ Jaws 2 ⓘ Shaft’s Big Score! ⓘ The Bold and the Beautiful ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Soap Opera Digest Award ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1929-03-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | West Hartford, Connecticut, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of Alzheimer’s disease ⓘ |
| characterType | villain ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2016-12-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Mascolo ⓘ |
| genre | soap opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Stefano DiMera on Days of Our Lives ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Joseph Mascolo ⓘ |
| notableRole | Stefano DiMera ⓘ |
| notableWork | Days of Our Lives ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| portrayed | Stefano DiMera ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Marie Mascolo
ⓘ
Patricia Schultz ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–2010s ⓘ |
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: Joseph Mascolo Description of subject: Joseph Mascolo was an American actor best known for his long-running role as the villainous Stefano DiMera on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.