Eriq La Salle
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Eriq La Salle is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Dr. Peter Benton on the television series "ER."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eriq La Salle canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3759452 — 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: Eriq La Salle Context triple: [ER, starredActor, Eriq La Salle]
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A.
Josh Peck
Josh Peck is an American actor and comedian best known for his role on the Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh" and his subsequent work in film, television, and online media.
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B.
James Madio
James Madio is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "The Basketball Diaries" and the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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C.
Jason Miller
Jason Miller was an American actor and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Father Damien Karras in the classic horror film "The Exorcist."
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D.
Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Barbershop," "Think Like a Man," and "2 Fast 2 Furious," as well as various television series.
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E.
Ben Cahoon
Ben Cahoon is a former Canadian Football League slotback widely regarded as one of the most reliable and productive receivers in Montreal Alouettes history.
- 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: Eriq La Salle Target entity description: Eriq La Salle is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Dr. Peter Benton on the television series "ER."
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A.
Josh Peck
Josh Peck is an American actor and comedian best known for his role on the Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh" and his subsequent work in film, television, and online media.
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B.
James Madio
James Madio is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "The Basketball Diaries" and the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
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C.
Jason Miller
Jason Miller was an American actor and playwright best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Father Damien Karras in the classic horror film "The Exorcist."
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D.
Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Barbershop," "Think Like a Man," and "2 Fast 2 Furious," as well as various television series.
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E.
Ben Cahoon
Ben Cahoon is a former Canadian Football League slotback widely regarded as one of the most reliable and productive receivers in Montreal Alouettes history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Eriq La Salle Description of subject: Eriq La Salle is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Dr. Peter Benton on the television series "ER."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.