Ray Donovan
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Ray Donovan is an American television drama series about a professional "fixer" in Los Angeles who solves powerful clients’ problems while struggling with his own troubled family life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ray Donovan canonical | 36 |
| Terry Donovan in Ray Donovan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1336349 — 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: Ray Donovan Context triple: [Richard Schiff, appearedIn, Ray Donovan]
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A.
Ross O’Donovan
Ross O’Donovan is an Irish-Australian animator, voice actor, and internet personality best known for his work on YouTube and as a former member of the Game Grumps channel.
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B.
Roy Coyle
Roy Coyle is a highly successful Northern Irish football manager best known for his trophy-laden spell in charge of Linfield FC.
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C.
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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D.
Raymond Holt
Raymond Holt is a stoic, hyper-competent, and deadpan NYPD captain known for his leadership of the 99th precinct and his subtle, dry humor on the sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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E.
Mark Donovan
Mark Donovan is an American sports executive who serves as the president of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, overseeing the franchise's business operations and strategic initiatives.
- 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: Ray Donovan Target entity description: Ray Donovan is an American television drama series about a professional "fixer" in Los Angeles who solves powerful clients’ problems while struggling with his own troubled family life.
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A.
Ross O’Donovan
Ross O’Donovan is an Irish-Australian animator, voice actor, and internet personality best known for his work on YouTube and as a former member of the Game Grumps channel.
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B.
Roy Coyle
Roy Coyle is a highly successful Northern Irish football manager best known for his trophy-laden spell in charge of Linfield FC.
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C.
Jack Mullaney
Jack Mullaney was an American character actor known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
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D.
Raymond Holt
Raymond Holt is a stoic, hyper-competent, and deadpan NYPD captain known for his leadership of the 99th precinct and his subtle, dry humor on the sitcom "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."
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E.
Mark Donovan
Mark Donovan is an American sports executive who serves as the president of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, overseeing the franchise's business operations and strategic initiatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Ray Donovan Description of subject: Ray Donovan is an American television drama series about a professional "fixer" in Los Angeles who solves powerful clients’ problems while struggling with his own troubled family life.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Terry Donovan in Ray Donovan
subject surface form:
Eddie Marsan
subject surface form:
Eddie Marsan