Tony Denison
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Tony Denison is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Andy Flynn on the crime dramas "The Closer" and its spin-off "Major Crimes."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tony Denison canonical | 6 |
| Anthony Denison | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1041900 — 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: Tony Denison Context triple: [The Closer, starring, Tony Denison]
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A.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Denis Barnett
Denis Barnett was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during and after the Second World War.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
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E.
Neal Dodson
Neal Dodson is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and genre films, frequently collaborating with director J.C. Chandor.
- 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: Tony Denison Target entity description: Tony Denison is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Andy Flynn on the crime dramas "The Closer" and its spin-off "Major Crimes."
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A.
Dennis Reynolds
Dennis Reynolds is a narcissistic, manipulative co-owner of Paddy’s Pub and one of the main characters in the dark comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Denis Barnett
Denis Barnett was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during and after the Second World War.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
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E.
Neal Dodson
Neal Dodson is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and genre films, frequently collaborating with director J.C. Chandor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Prism Award ⓘ |
| birthName | Anthony John Denison ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Detective Andy Flynn
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Ray Luca ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-09-20 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Italian-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Denison ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Anthony ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portraying Detective Andy Flynn on Major Crimes
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portraying Detective Andy Flynn on The Closer ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Tony Denison ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Major Crimes
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The Closer ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Harlem, New York City, New York, United States
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linked to:
Harlem
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| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
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linked to:
Los Angeles
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| televisionSeriesAppearance |
Crime Story
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Major Crimes ⓘ The Closer ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1980s–present ⓘ |
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: Tony Denison Description of subject: Tony Denison is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Andy Flynn on the crime dramas "The Closer" and its spin-off "Major Crimes."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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