Dennis Farina
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Dennis Farina was an American actor and former Chicago police officer best known for his tough-guy roles in films like "Get Shorty" and on TV series such as "Law & Order."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Farina canonical | 30 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749237 — 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: Dennis Farina Context triple: [Saving Private Ryan, starring, Dennis Farina]
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A.
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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B.
Burt Young
Burt Young was an American character actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Paulie Pennino, Rocky Balboa’s gruff but loyal friend, in the Rocky film series.
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C.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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D.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
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E.
Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from 1980s teen dramas like "The Outsiders" to acclaimed roles in movies such as "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Crash."
- 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: Dennis Farina Target entity description: Dennis Farina was an American actor and former Chicago police officer best known for his tough-guy roles in films like "Get Shorty" and on TV series such as "Law & Order."
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A.
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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B.
Burt Young
Burt Young was an American character actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Paulie Pennino, Rocky Balboa’s gruff but loyal friend, in the Rocky film series.
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C.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward was an American character actor known for his rugged, everyman roles in films such as "Tremors," "The Right Stuff," and "Short Cuts."
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D.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
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E.
Matt Dillon
Matt Dillon is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films ranging from 1980s teen dramas like "The Outsiders" to acclaimed roles in movies such as "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Crash."
- 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: Dennis Farina Description of subject: Dennis Farina was an American actor and former Chicago police officer best known for his tough-guy roles in films like "Get Shorty" and on TV series such as "Law & Order."
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Get Shorty (film)
subject linked to:
Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty
subject linked to:
Detective Joe Fontana in Law & Order
subject linked to:
Lt. Mike Torello in Crime Story