Detective Danny Costanzo
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Detective Danny Costanzo is a tough, streetwise New York cop and partner to Detective Ray Hughes in the 1986 action-comedy film "Running Scared."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Detective Danny Costanzo canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6271580 — 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: Detective Danny Costanzo Context triple: [Detective Ray Hughes, hasFriend, Detective Danny Costanzo]
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A.
Detective Chris Lecce
Detective Chris Lecce is the wisecracking, street-smart Seattle cop portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss in the 1987 buddy-cop comedy film "Stakeout."
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B.
Lieutenant Theo Kojak
Lieutenant Theo Kojak is a tough, lollipop-licking New York City police detective from the 1970s television series "Kojak," known for his bald head, sharp wit, and unorthodox methods.
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C.
Detective Jack Graham
Detective Jack Graham is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," serving as a government investigator who quietly probes the suspicions surrounding Uncle Charlie.
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D.
Detective Bill Reimers
Detective Bill Reimers is a comedic police detective portrayed by Emilio Estevez in the 1987 buddy-cop film "Stakeout."
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E.
Detective Keith Frazier
Detective Keith Frazier is the determined NYPD hostage negotiator portrayed by Denzel Washington in the heist thriller film "Inside Man."
- 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: Detective Danny Costanzo Target entity description: Detective Danny Costanzo is a tough, streetwise New York cop and partner to Detective Ray Hughes in the 1986 action-comedy film "Running Scared."
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A.
Detective Chris Lecce
Detective Chris Lecce is the wisecracking, street-smart Seattle cop portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss in the 1987 buddy-cop comedy film "Stakeout."
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B.
Lieutenant Theo Kojak
Lieutenant Theo Kojak is a tough, lollipop-licking New York City police detective from the 1970s television series "Kojak," known for his bald head, sharp wit, and unorthodox methods.
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C.
Detective Jack Graham
Detective Jack Graham is a supporting character in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 thriller "Shadow of a Doubt," serving as a government investigator who quietly probes the suspicions surrounding Uncle Charlie.
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D.
Detective Bill Reimers
Detective Bill Reimers is a comedic police detective portrayed by Emilio Estevez in the 1987 buddy-cop film "Stakeout."
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E.
Detective Keith Frazier
Detective Keith Frazier is the determined NYPD hostage negotiator portrayed by Denzel Washington in the heist thriller film "Inside Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Running Scared ⓘ |
| buddyOf | Detective Ray Hughes ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
streetwise
ⓘ
tough ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | New York City Police Department ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Peter Hyams ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| genreContext | buddy cop film ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | action comedy film ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Detective Ray Hughes ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| partner | Detective Ray Hughes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Running Scared (1986 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Running Scared
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| portrayedBy | Billy Crystal ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| worksFor |
NYPD
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City Police Department
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| yearOfWork | 1986 ⓘ |
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: Detective Danny Costanzo Description of subject: Detective Danny Costanzo is a tough, streetwise New York cop and partner to Detective Ray Hughes in the 1986 action-comedy film "Running Scared."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Detective Ray Hughes in Running Scared
subject linked to:
Detective Ray Hughes in Running Scared
subject linked to:
Detective Ray Hughes in Running Scared