Dean Norris
E92532
Dean Norris is an American character actor best known for his role as DEA agent Hank Schrader on the television series "Breaking Bad."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dean Norris canonical | 25 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597905 — 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: Dean Norris Context triple: [Fist Fight, starring, Dean Norris]
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A.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian best known for his lead role in the television series "Doc Martin" and his work on the sitcom "Men Behaving Badly."
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B.
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc.
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C.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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D.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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E.
Mark Strong
Mark Strong is a British actor known for his intense screen presence and frequent roles as complex villains or stern mentors in films such as "Kingsman," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
- 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: Dean Norris Target entity description: Dean Norris is an American character actor best known for his role as DEA agent Hank Schrader on the television series "Breaking Bad."
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A.
Martin Clunes
Martin Clunes is an English actor and comedian best known for his lead role in the television series "Doc Martin" and his work on the sitcom "Men Behaving Badly."
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B.
Reggie Brown
Reggie Brown is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Snapchat, the multimedia messaging app developed by Snap Inc.
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C.
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Robbie Lewis in the television series "Inspector Morse" and its spin-off "Lewis."
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D.
Benjamin Whitrow
Benjamin Whitrow was a British character actor best known for his acclaimed portrayal of Mr. Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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E.
Mark Strong
Mark Strong is a British actor known for his intense screen presence and frequent roles as complex villains or stern mentors in films such as "Kingsman," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| characterIn | Breaking Bad ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employedAs |
DEA agent character Hank Schrader
ⓘ
linked to:
Hank Schrader
|
| familyName | Norris ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | acting ⓘ |
| genre | drama television ⓘ |
| givenName | Dean ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
character actor status
ⓘ
frequent supporting roles ⓘ |
| hasProfession | performing artist ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying law enforcement characters ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Dean Norris ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Hank Schrader ⓘ |
| notableWork | Breaking Bad ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of Breaking Bad ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| typeOfArtist | screen actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
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: Dean Norris Description of subject: Dean Norris is an American character actor best known for his role as DEA agent Hank Schrader on the television series "Breaking Bad."
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Breaking Bad episode "Ozymandias"
subject linked to:
Claws (TV series)
subject linked to:
Ozymandias
subject linked to:
Breaking Bad season 2 episode "Better Call Saul"
subject linked to:
Death Wish (2018)