Michael Badalucco
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Michael Badalucco is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as attorney Jimmy Berluti on the television series "The Practice."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Badalucco canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3197351 — 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: Michael Badalucco Context triple: [The Practice, portrayedBy, Michael Badalucco]
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A.
Ron Aniello
Ron Aniello is an American record producer, composer, and musician best known for his extensive collaboration with Bruce Springsteen on several of his later albums.
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B.
Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas is a Hungarian-American screenwriter best known for his provocative, high-profile Hollywood thrillers of the late 20th century.
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C.
Michael V. Gazzo
Michael V. Gazzo was an American actor and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as Frank Pentangeli in *The Godfather Part II* and for writing the play *A Hatful of Rain*.
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D.
Frank Basile
Frank Basile is an American jazz baritone saxophonist and bandleader known for his work in the New York jazz scene.
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E.
Lou Romano
Lou Romano is an American animator, art director, and voice actor best known for his work with Pixar, including voicing the character Alfredo Linguini in the film "Ratatouille."
- 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: Michael Badalucco Target entity description: Michael Badalucco is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as attorney Jimmy Berluti on the television series "The Practice."
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A.
Ron Aniello
Ron Aniello is an American record producer, composer, and musician best known for his extensive collaboration with Bruce Springsteen on several of his later albums.
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B.
Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas is a Hungarian-American screenwriter best known for his provocative, high-profile Hollywood thrillers of the late 20th century.
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C.
Michael V. Gazzo
Michael V. Gazzo was an American actor and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as Frank Pentangeli in *The Godfather Part II* and for writing the play *A Hatful of Rain*.
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D.
Frank Basile
Frank Basile is an American jazz baritone saxophonist and bandleader known for his work in the New York jazz scene.
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E.
Lou Romano
Lou Romano is an American animator, art director, and voice actor best known for his work with Pixar, including voicing the character Alfredo Linguini in the film "Ratatouille."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award
ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Badalucco ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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television ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Italian American ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0000823 ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying attorney Jimmy Berluti on The Practice ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
feature films
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| name | Michael Badalucco ⓘ |
| notableRole | Jimmy Berluti ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Léon: The Professional
ⓘ
Mac ⓘ O Brother, Where Art Thou? ⓘ Summer of Sam ⓘ The Man Who Wasn’t There ⓘ
linked to:
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Practice ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Joseph Badalucco Jr. ⓘ |
| spouse | Brenda Heywood ⓘ |
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: Michael Badalucco Description of subject: Michael Badalucco is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as attorney Jimmy Berluti on the television series "The Practice."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.