Dan Frazer
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Dan Frazer was an American character actor best known for his role as Captain Frank McNeil on the television series "Kojak."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dan Frazer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2120172 — 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: Dan Frazer Context triple: [Lilies of the Field, starring, Dan Frazer]
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A.
Michael Ferris
Michael Ferris is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing major studio films such as "Terminator Salvation" and "The Net."
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B.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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C.
Brian Fawcett
Brian Fawcett was the son of British explorer Percy Fawcett, known mainly for his connection to his father's legendary Amazon expeditions and disappearance.
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D.
John Hirschbeck
John Hirschbeck is a former Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the league for decades and officiated multiple World Series.
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E.
Bruce Fraser
Bruce Fraser was a senior British Royal Navy admiral who played a key role in Allied naval operations during World War II and represented the United Kingdom at the formal Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
- 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: Dan Frazer Target entity description: Dan Frazer was an American character actor best known for his role as Captain Frank McNeil on the television series "Kojak."
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A.
Michael Ferris
Michael Ferris is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing major studio films such as "Terminator Salvation" and "The Net."
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B.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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C.
Brian Fawcett
Brian Fawcett was the son of British explorer Percy Fawcett, known mainly for his connection to his father's legendary Amazon expeditions and disappearance.
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D.
John Hirschbeck
John Hirschbeck is a former Major League Baseball umpire who worked in the league for decades and officiated multiple World Series.
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E.
Bruce Fraser
Bruce Fraser was a senior British Royal Navy admiral who played a key role in Allied naval operations during World War II and represented the United Kingdom at the formal Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American film
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20th-century American television ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Kojak
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various American television series ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1921-11-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-12-16 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Frazer ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | television ⓘ |
| givenName | Dan ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0292142 ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of Captain Frank McNeil on Kojak ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Dan Frazer ⓘ |
| notableWork | Kojak ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| portrayed | Captain Frank McNeil ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Dan Frazer Description of subject: Dan Frazer was an American character actor best known for his role as Captain Frank McNeil on the television series "Kojak."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.