Det. Johnny Corso
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Det. Johnny Corso is a fictional New York City police detective character associated with the NYPD in crime and detective storytelling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Det. Johnny Corso canonical | 1 |
| Martin Rome in Cry of the City | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7355078 — 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: Det. Johnny Corso Context triple: [N.Y.P.D., character, Det. Johnny Corso]
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A.
Detective Frank Divinci
Detective Frank Divinci is a corrupt and morally conflicted Los Angeles police detective portrayed by James Belushi in the crime film "Gang Related."
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B.
Detective Danny Costanzo
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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C.
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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D.
James "Sonny" Crockett
James "Sonny" Crockett is the stylish undercover Miami detective and central protagonist of the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
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E.
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."
- 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: Det. Johnny Corso Target entity description: Det. Johnny Corso is a fictional New York City police detective character associated with the NYPD in crime and detective storytelling.
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A.
Detective Frank Divinci
Detective Frank Divinci is a corrupt and morally conflicted Los Angeles police detective portrayed by James Belushi in the crime film "Gang Related."
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B.
Detective Danny Costanzo
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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C.
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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D.
James "Sonny" Crockett
James "Sonny" Crockett is the stylish undercover Miami detective and central protagonist of the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| affiliation | New York City Police Department ⓘ |
| associatedOrganization |
NYPD
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City Police Department
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| characterType | detective character ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | New York City Police Department ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| medium | storytelling ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | crime investigation ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | police detective ⓘ |
| setting | urban environment ⓘ |
| workField | law enforcement ⓘ |
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: Det. Johnny Corso Description of subject: Det. Johnny Corso is a fictional New York City police detective character associated with the NYPD in crime and detective storytelling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.