Jack Soo
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Jack Soo was a Japanese-American actor and comedian best known for his role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television sitcom "Barney Miller."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Soo canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1795064 — 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: Jack Soo Context triple: [Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Jack Soo]
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A.
Mason Lee
Mason Lee is a Taiwanese-American actor known for roles in films such as "The Hangover Part II" and for being the son of acclaimed director Ang Lee.
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B.
Jacknife Lee
Jacknife Lee is an Irish music producer and mixer known for his work with major rock and pop acts such as U2, R.E.M., and Snow Patrol.
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C.
Peter Sohn
Peter Sohn is an American animator, voice actor, and film director at Pixar known for his work on projects like "Ratatouille," "The Good Dinosaur," and "Elemental."
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D.
Micah Lee
Micah Lee is a technologist, journalist, and digital security expert known for his work on encryption tools and secure communication for journalists and whistleblowers.
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E.
Haan Lee
Haan Lee is one of the children of acclaimed Taiwanese-American film director Ang Lee.
- 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: Jack Soo Target entity description: Jack Soo was a Japanese-American actor and comedian best known for his role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television sitcom "Barney Miller."
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A.
Mason Lee
Mason Lee is a Taiwanese-American actor known for roles in films such as "The Hangover Part II" and for being the son of acclaimed director Ang Lee.
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B.
Jacknife Lee
Jacknife Lee is an Irish music producer and mixer known for his work with major rock and pop acts such as U2, R.E.M., and Snow Patrol.
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C.
Peter Sohn
Peter Sohn is an American animator, voice actor, and film director at Pixar known for his work on projects like "Ratatouille," "The Good Dinosaur," and "Elemental."
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D.
Micah Lee
Micah Lee is a technologist, journalist, and digital security expert known for his work on encryption tools and secure communication for journalists and whistleblowers.
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E.
Haan Lee
Haan Lee is one of the children of acclaimed Taiwanese-American film director Ang Lee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ person ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Goro Suzuki ⓘ |
| castMemberOf | Barney Miller ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese American ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Japanese-American ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor | role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television sitcom "Barney Miller" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Jack Soo ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first Asian-American actors with a regular role on a U.S. network television sitcom ⓘ |
| notableRole | Detective Nick Yemana ⓘ |
| notableWork | Barney Miller ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ |
| portrayed | Detective Nick Yemana ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn | Barney Miller ⓘ |
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: Jack Soo Description of subject: Jack Soo was a Japanese-American actor and comedian best known for his role as Detective Nick Yemana on the television sitcom "Barney Miller."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.