Dorsey Wright
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Dorsey Wright is an American actor best known for his role as Cleon in the cult classic film "The Warriors" (1979).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorsey Wright canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11299740 — 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: Dorsey Wright Context triple: [Hair (1979 film), starredActor, Dorsey Wright]
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A.
Cordell Walker
Cordell Walker is the tough, morally driven Texas Ranger portrayed by Chuck Norris in the action-crime television series "Walker, Texas Ranger."
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B.
Horace Albert McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
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C.
Erskine Hawkins
Erskine Hawkins was an American trumpeter and big band leader best known for his swing-era hit "Tuxedo Junction."
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D.
Otis Pike
Otis Pike was an American Democratic congressman from New York known for his leadership in investigating U.S. intelligence agencies during the 1970s.
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E.
Wardell Franklin
Wardell Franklin is a comedic character from the 1974 film "Uptown Saturday Night," portrayed as one of the lively figures caught up in the movie’s chaotic, crime-tinged nightlife adventure.
- 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: Dorsey Wright Target entity description: Dorsey Wright is an American actor best known for his role as Cleon in the cult classic film "The Warriors" (1979).
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A.
Cordell Walker
Cordell Walker is the tough, morally driven Texas Ranger portrayed by Chuck Norris in the action-crime television series "Walker, Texas Ranger."
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B.
Horace Albert McKinney
Horace Albert "Bones" McKinney was an American basketball player and coach best known for his colorful personality and successful coaching career at Wake Forest University.
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C.
Erskine Hawkins
Erskine Hawkins was an American trumpeter and big band leader best known for his swing-era hit "Tuxedo Junction."
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D.
Otis Pike
Otis Pike was an American Democratic congressman from New York known for his leadership in investigating U.S. intelligence agencies during the 1970s.
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E.
Wardell Franklin
Wardell Franklin is a comedic character from the 1974 film "Uptown Saturday Night," portrayed as one of the lively figures caught up in the movie’s chaotic, crime-tinged nightlife adventure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | United States film industry ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Hair
ⓘ
Ragtime ⓘ
linked to:
Ragtime (film)
The Hotel New Hampshire ⓘ
linked to:
1984 film The Hotel New Hampshire
The Warriors ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs | cult film actor ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewsAbout | The Warriors ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Cleon in The Warriors ⓘ |
| notableRole | Cleon ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Warriors ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of The Warriors ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Cleon ⓘ |
| workPeriodStart | 1970s ⓘ |
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: Dorsey Wright Description of subject: Dorsey Wright is an American actor best known for his role as Cleon in the cult classic film "The Warriors" (1979).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.