Larry Riley
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Larry Riley was an American actor best known for his roles in film, television, and theater, including a prominent performance in the drama "A Soldier's Story."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Riley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2459573 — 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: Larry Riley Context triple: [A Soldier's Story, starredActor, Larry Riley]
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A.
Jeff Cunningham
Jeff Cunningham is a former professional soccer forward best known as one of Major League Soccer’s most prolific goal scorers.
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B.
Thomas Kinnear
Thomas Kinnear is a fictional Canadian gentleman and murder victim in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace," whose death is central to the story’s mystery.
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C.
Terry Jeffords
Terry Jeffords is a devoted family man and physically imposing yet gentle sergeant in the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," known for his leadership, sensitivity, and love of yogurt.
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D.
Bill Bolling
Bill Bolling is an American Republican politician who served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2014.
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E.
Donn Cambern
Donn Cambern was an American film editor known for his work on numerous prominent Hollywood films, including the adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone."
- 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: Larry Riley Target entity description: Larry Riley was an American actor best known for his roles in film, television, and theater, including a prominent performance in the drama "A Soldier's Story."
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A.
Jeff Cunningham
Jeff Cunningham is a former professional soccer forward best known as one of Major League Soccer’s most prolific goal scorers.
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B.
Thomas Kinnear
Thomas Kinnear is a fictional Canadian gentleman and murder victim in Margaret Atwood’s novel "Alias Grace," whose death is central to the story’s mystery.
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C.
Terry Jeffords
Terry Jeffords is a devoted family man and physically imposing yet gentle sergeant in the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," known for his leadership, sensitivity, and love of yogurt.
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D.
Bill Bolling
Bill Bolling is an American Republican politician who served as the 39th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2014.
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E.
Donn Cambern
Donn Cambern was an American film editor known for his work on numerous prominent Hollywood films, including the adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Riley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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performing arts ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| name | Larry Riley self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Soldier's Story
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Knots Landing ⓘ television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of A Soldier's Story ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | 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: Larry Riley Description of subject: Larry Riley was an American actor best known for his roles in film, television, and theater, including a prominent performance in the drama "A Soldier's Story."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.