Charles Cioffi
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Charles Cioffi is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, particularly in dramas and crime series from the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Cioffi canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342635 — 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: Charles Cioffi Context triple: [All the Right Moves, starring, Charles Cioffi]
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A.
John Cioffi
John Cioffi is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor emeritus renowned as the "father of DSL" for his pioneering work in high-speed digital communications over telephone lines.
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B.
Frank Yaconelli
Frank Yaconelli was an Italian-American character actor and musician known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Ralph Cifaretto
Ralph Cifaretto is a volatile, sadistic mob captain in the HBO series "The Sopranos," known for his cruelty, dark humor, and pivotal role in several of the show's most shocking storylines.
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D.
Charles Camarda
Charles Camarda is a NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer best known for flying on the Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-114 “Return to Flight” mission following the Columbia disaster.
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E.
Nicholas M. Donofrio
Nicholas M. Donofrio is an American engineer and former IBM executive known for his leadership in technology and innovation, particularly in advancing computing and research initiatives.
- 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: Charles Cioffi Target entity description: Charles Cioffi is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, particularly in dramas and crime series from the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
John Cioffi
John Cioffi is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor emeritus renowned as the "father of DSL" for his pioneering work in high-speed digital communications over telephone lines.
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B.
Frank Yaconelli
Frank Yaconelli was an Italian-American character actor and musician known for his comic supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Ralph Cifaretto
Ralph Cifaretto is a volatile, sadistic mob captain in the HBO series "The Sopranos," known for his cruelty, dark humor, and pivotal role in several of the show's most shocking storylines.
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D.
Charles Camarda
Charles Camarda is a NASA astronaut and aerospace engineer best known for flying on the Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-114 “Return to Flight” mission following the Columbia disaster.
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E.
Nicholas M. Donofrio
Nicholas M. Donofrio is an American engineer and former IBM executive known for his leadership in technology and innovation, particularly in advancing computing and research initiatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Cioffi ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Charles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Charles Cioffi ⓘ |
| notableRole |
supporting roles in crime and drama television series
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supporting roles in feature films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Klute
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Kojak ⓘ Law & Order ⓘ NYPD Blue ⓘ Shaft ⓘ
linked to:
Shaft (2000 film)
Starsky & Hutch ⓘ The X-Files ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| typeOfActor | character actor ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ |
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: Charles Cioffi Description of subject: Charles Cioffi is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, particularly in dramas and crime series from the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.