Danny Trejo
E68994
Danny Trejo is an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in action and crime films, often portraying hardened criminals or antiheroes.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny Trejo canonical | 42 |
| Dan Trejo | 1 |
| Daniel Trejo | 1 |
| Danny Trejo (as Machete Cortez) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T550799 — 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: Danny Trejo Context triple: [Desperado, stars, Danny Trejo]
-
A.
Colman Domingo
Colman Domingo is an American actor, writer, and director known for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in works like "Fear the Walking Dead," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," and "Rustin."
-
B.
Rafael Mijares
Rafael Mijares was a Mexican architect best known for co-designing Mexico City’s iconic National Museum of Anthropology, a landmark of modernist museum architecture.
-
C.
Alex Guerrero
Alex Guerrero is a fitness and alternative medicine practitioner best known as Tom Brady’s longtime body coach and business partner in the TB12 sports performance brand.
-
D.
Nestor Carbonell
Nestor Carbonell is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Lost" and "Bates Motel," as well as numerous film and voice-acting appearances.
-
E.
Joseph Montoya
Joseph Montoya was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Mexico known for his role on the Senate Watergate Committee during the investigation of the Nixon administration.
- 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: Danny Trejo Target entity description: Danny Trejo is an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in action and crime films, often portraying hardened criminals or antiheroes.
-
A.
Colman Domingo
Colman Domingo is an American actor, writer, and director known for his powerful performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in works like "Fear the Walking Dead," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," and "Rustin."
-
B.
Rafael Mijares
Rafael Mijares was a Mexican architect best known for co-designing Mexico City’s iconic National Museum of Anthropology, a landmark of modernist museum architecture.
-
C.
Alex Guerrero
Alex Guerrero is a fitness and alternative medicine practitioner best known as Tom Brady’s longtime body coach and business partner in the TB12 sports performance brand.
-
D.
Nestor Carbonell
Nestor Carbonell is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Lost" and "Bates Motel," as well as numerous film and voice-acting appearances.
-
E.
Joseph Montoya
Joseph Montoya was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Mexico known for his role on the Senate Watergate Committee during the investigation of the Nixon administration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ human ⓘ restaurateur ⓘ stunt performer ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activity | public speaking on addiction recovery ⓘ |
| birthName |
Dan Trejo
ⓘ
linked to:
Danny Trejo
Daniel Trejo ⓘ
linked to:
Danny Trejo
|
| characterPlayed |
Machete Cortez
ⓘ
linked to:
Machete
Navajas ⓘ Razor Charlie ⓘ Tortuga ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Robert Rodriguez ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-05-16 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mexican American ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ |
| hairColor | black ⓘ |
| hasBusiness |
Trejo's Cantina
ⓘ
Trejo's Coffee & Donuts ⓘ Trejo's Tacos ⓘ |
| hasChild | Gilbert Trejo ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Gilbert Trejo ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive facial scars
ⓘ
frequent collaborations with Robert Rodriguez ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| name | Danny Trejo ⓘ |
| notableEvent | served time in California prisons before acting career ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying antiheroes
ⓘ
portraying hardened criminals ⓘ tough-guy roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Breaking Bad
ⓘ
Con Air ⓘ Desperado ⓘ From Dusk Till Dawn ⓘ Heat ⓘ Machete ⓘ Machete Kills ⓘ Sons of Anarchy ⓘ Spy Kids ⓘ Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams ⓘ Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ restaurateur ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | prison boxing competitions in his youth ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Echo Park
|
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
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: Danny Trejo Description of subject: Danny Trejo is an American character actor known for his tough-guy roles in action and crime films, often portraying hardened criminals or antiheroes.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Danny Trejo
linked to: Danny Trejo
linked to: Danny Trejo