James Hiroyuki Liao
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James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in series like Prison Break and Barry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Hiroyuki Liao canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2644459 — 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: James Hiroyuki Liao Context triple: [Frankenweenie (2012 film), voiceCast, James Hiroyuki Liao]
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A.
Kenneth Hsu
Kenneth Hsu is a Swiss geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on marine geology and the Messinian salinity crisis.
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B.
John Cheng
John Cheng is a film producer best known for his work on the dark comedy movie "Horrible Bosses."
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C.
Michael Shiosaki
Michael Shiosaki is an American parks and recreation professional who is publicly known as the husband of former Seattle mayor Ed Murray.
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D.
Johnny Chiang
Johnny Chiang is a Taiwanese politician who has served as a prominent leader within the Kuomintang (KMT) party and as a legislator in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan.
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E.
David Luan
David Luan is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models at OpenAI and as co-founder and CEO of Adept AI.
- 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: James Hiroyuki Liao Target entity description: James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in series like Prison Break and Barry.
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A.
Kenneth Hsu
Kenneth Hsu is a Swiss geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on marine geology and the Messinian salinity crisis.
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B.
John Cheng
John Cheng is a film producer best known for his work on the dark comedy movie "Horrible Bosses."
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C.
Michael Shiosaki
Michael Shiosaki is an American parks and recreation professional who is publicly known as the husband of former Seattle mayor Ed Murray.
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D.
Johnny Chiang
Johnny Chiang is a Taiwanese politician who has served as a prominent leader within the Kuomintang (KMT) party and as a legislator in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan.
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E.
David Luan
David Luan is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models at OpenAI and as co-founder and CEO of Adept AI.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Asian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Liao ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| genre |
action
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comedy-drama ⓘ crime drama ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Albert Nguyen in Barry
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Jay Lee in Unforgettable ⓘ Roland Glenn in Prison Break ⓘ Tanaka in Cowboy Bebop (2021 TV series) ⓘ voice of a character in Star Wars: The Bad Batch ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barry
ⓘ
Battle: Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Battle Los Angeles
Cowboy Bebop (2021 TV series) ⓘ Prison Break ⓘ Star Wars: The Bad Batch ⓘ The Dropout ⓘ Unforgettable ⓘ World Trade Center ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| 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: James Hiroyuki Liao Description of subject: James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in series like Prison Break and Barry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.