Gary Robert Durdin
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Gary Robert Durdin, known professionally as Gary Dourdan, is an American actor and musician best known for his role as Warrick Brown on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gary Robert Durdin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8845305 — 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)
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Target entity: Gary Robert Durdin Context triple: [Gary Dourdan, birthName, Gary Robert Durdin]
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A.
David Durkan
David Durkan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
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B.
William Ronald Durnan
William Ronald Durnan was a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender who starred for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s, winning multiple Vezina Trophies and Stanley Cups.
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C.
James Durkan
James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
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D.
Gary Grice
Gary Grice, better known by his stage name GZA, is an American rapper, lyricist, and founding member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
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E.
Gary Waldhorn
Gary Waldhorn was a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles on television and stage, particularly in popular UK sitcoms.
- 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: Gary Robert Durdin Target entity description: Gary Robert Durdin, known professionally as Gary Dourdan, is an American actor and musician best known for his role as Warrick Brown on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
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A.
David Durkan
David Durkan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
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B.
William Ronald Durnan
William Ronald Durnan was a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender who starred for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1940s, winning multiple Vezina Trophies and Stanley Cups.
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C.
James Durkan
James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
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D.
Gary Grice
Gary Grice, better known by his stage name GZA, is an American rapper, lyricist, and founding member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
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E.
Gary Waldhorn
Gary Waldhorn was a British actor best known for his comedic and character roles on television and stage, particularly in popular UK sitcoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film acting
ⓘ
music performance ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1966-12-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
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| characterPortrayed | Warrick Brown ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Durdin ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama television ⓘ |
| givenName | Gary ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0233026 ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Warrick Brown on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | Gary Robert Durdin ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| stageName | Gary Dourdan ⓘ |
| televisionSeries | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ⓘ |
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: Gary Robert Durdin Description of subject: Gary Robert Durdin, known professionally as Gary Dourdan, is an American actor and musician best known for his role as Warrick Brown on the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.