Don Perata
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Don Perata is an American politician who served as president pro tempore of the California State Senate and was a prominent Democratic leader in state and local politics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don Perata canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5076218 — 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: Don Perata Context triple: [Oakland High School, hasNotableAlumnus, Don Perata]
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A.
Anthony DeLuca
Anthony DeLuca is a character from the 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties," which followed the lives of Las Vegas showgirls and their manager.
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B.
Calvin Schiraldi
Calvin Schiraldi is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best remembered for his role with the Boston Red Sox during the mid-1980s, particularly in the dramatic conclusion of the 1986 postseason.
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C.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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D.
Ron Pardo
Ron Pardo is a Canadian actor and voice actor best known for his multiple character roles in the animated children's franchise PAW Patrol, including its feature film adaptation.
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E.
John Femia
John Femia is an actor known for playing the character Marshall Blechtman.
- 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: Don Perata Target entity description: Don Perata is an American politician who served as president pro tempore of the California State Senate and was a prominent Democratic leader in state and local politics.
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A.
Anthony DeLuca
Anthony DeLuca is a character from the 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties," which followed the lives of Las Vegas showgirls and their manager.
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B.
Calvin Schiraldi
Calvin Schiraldi is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best remembered for his role with the Boston Red Sox during the mid-1980s, particularly in the dramatic conclusion of the 1986 postseason.
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C.
Greg Corrado
Greg Corrado is an American computer scientist and researcher known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and deep learning, including co-founding Google Brain.
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D.
Ron Pardo
Ron Pardo is a Canadian actor and voice actor best known for his multiple character roles in the animated children's franchise PAW Patrol, including its feature film adaptation.
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E.
John Femia
John Femia is an actor known for playing the character Marshall Blechtman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Local government
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Politics ⓘ Public policy ⓘ State government ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
Consultant
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Educator ⓘ Lobbyist ⓘ Politician ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Alameda County
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City of Oakland ⓘ
linked to:
Oakland
State of California ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
California State Assembly
ⓘ
California State Senate ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party (United States)
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linked to:
Democratic Party
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| movement | California Democratic politics ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Advocacy on public safety issues
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Influence in California Democratic politics ⓘ Involvement in criminal justice and prison policy debates in California ⓘ Leadership in the California State Senate ⓘ Leadership on infrastructure bond measures in California ⓘ Role in Bay Area transportation planning and funding ⓘ Role in California redistricting and legislative negotiations ⓘ Work on transportation funding measures in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| officeContested |
California State Treasurer
ⓘ
linked to:
State Treasurer of California
Mayor of Oakland ⓘ |
| partyRole |
Democratic leader in the California State Senate
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Prominent Democratic figure in Bay Area politics ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Liberal
ⓘ
Progressive Democrat ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Alameda County Supervisor
ⓘ
linked to:
District 1 Supervisor
Lobbyist ⓘ Member of the California State Assembly ⓘ Member of the California State Senate ⓘ Political consultant ⓘ President pro tempore of the California State Senate ⓘ Teacher ⓘ |
| residence |
Oakland, California
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linked to:
Oakland
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| sphereOfActivity |
Local government politics
ⓘ
State-level politics ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Alameda County, California
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linked to:
Alameda County
California ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Oakland, California ⓘ
linked to:
Oakland
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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: Don Perata Description of subject: Don Perata is an American politician who served as president pro tempore of the California State Senate and was a prominent Democratic leader in state and local politics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.