Anthony Yerkovich
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Anthony Yerkovich is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the influential 1980s crime drama series Miami Vice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anthony Yerkovich canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9983813 — 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: Anthony Yerkovich Context triple: [Miami Vice, creator, Anthony Yerkovich]
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A.
Ray Ploshansky
Ray Ploshansky is a cynical, neurotic coffee shop manager and central supporting character on the television series "Girls," known for his complicated relationships and sharp, often abrasive wit.
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B.
Thomas Yatsko
Thomas Yatsko is an American cinematographer and television director known for his work on various films and TV series, including the thriller "The Call" (2013).
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C.
Nick Wasicsko
Nick Wasicsko was a young Yonkers, New York mayor known for his pivotal and contentious role in implementing federally mandated public housing desegregation in the late 1980s.
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D.
Leon Barmore
Leon Barmore is a legendary women's college basketball coach best known for leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters to national prominence and multiple NCAA championships.
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E.
Ray Aibelli
Ray Aibelli is a fictional character portrayed by actor Jeremy Davies, likely in a film or television production.
- 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: Anthony Yerkovich Target entity description: Anthony Yerkovich is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the influential 1980s crime drama series Miami Vice.
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A.
Ray Ploshansky
Ray Ploshansky is a cynical, neurotic coffee shop manager and central supporting character on the television series "Girls," known for his complicated relationships and sharp, often abrasive wit.
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B.
Thomas Yatsko
Thomas Yatsko is an American cinematographer and television director known for his work on various films and TV series, including the thriller "The Call" (2013).
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C.
Nick Wasicsko
Nick Wasicsko was a young Yonkers, New York mayor known for his pivotal and contentious role in implementing federally mandated public housing desegregation in the late 1980s.
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D.
Leon Barmore
Leon Barmore is a legendary women's college basketball coach best known for leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters to national prominence and multiple NCAA championships.
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E.
Ray Aibelli
Ray Aibelli is a fictional character portrayed by actor Jeremy Davies, likely in a film or television production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
television producer ⓘ television series ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| activeIn | television industry ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Anthony Yerkovich ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Miami Vice ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
crime drama writing
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television production ⓘ television writing ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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crime drama ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasWork | Miami Vice ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableEra | 1980s ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating the 1980s crime drama series Miami Vice
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influencing 1980s television style and tone through Miami Vice ⓘ |
| notableWork | Miami Vice ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Anthony Yerkovich Description of subject: Anthony Yerkovich is an American television writer and producer best known for creating the influential 1980s crime drama series Miami Vice.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Miami Vice (director on episodes)
subject linked to:
"Miami Vice"
subject linked to:
Anthony Yerkovich