Jaye Davidson
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Jaye Davidson is a British-American former actor and model best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Dil in the 1992 film "The Crying Game."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jaye Davidson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5531530 — 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: Jaye Davidson Context triple: [The Crying Game, portrayedBy, Jaye Davidson]
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A.
Melody Davidson
Melody Davidson is a highly respected Canadian ice hockey coach best known for leading the Canadian women's national team to multiple Olympic and World Championship titles.
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B.
Jody Payne
Jody Payne was an American country guitarist and longtime member of Willie Nelson’s band, known for his distinctive backing work on numerous recordings and tours.
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C.
Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston was an American silent film actress best known for her role opposite Douglas Fairbanks in the classic 1924 fantasy film "The Thief of Bagdad."
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D.
Jo Hayden
Jo Hayden is the ambitious young vaudeville singer portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1942 musical film "For Me and My Gal."
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E.
Kay Medford
Kay Medford was an American stage and screen actress best known for her Tony- and Oscar-nominated portrayal of Fanny Brice’s mother in the musical and film "Funny Girl."
- 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: Jaye Davidson Target entity description: Jaye Davidson is a British-American former actor and model best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Dil in the 1992 film "The Crying Game."
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A.
Melody Davidson
Melody Davidson is a highly respected Canadian ice hockey coach best known for leading the Canadian women's national team to multiple Olympic and World Championship titles.
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B.
Jody Payne
Jody Payne was an American country guitarist and longtime member of Willie Nelson’s band, known for his distinctive backing work on numerous recordings and tours.
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C.
Julanne Johnston
Julanne Johnston was an American silent film actress best known for her role opposite Douglas Fairbanks in the classic 1924 fantasy film "The Thief of Bagdad."
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D.
Jo Hayden
Jo Hayden is the ambitious young vaudeville singer portrayed by Judy Garland in the 1942 musical film "For Me and My Gal."
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E.
Kay Medford
Kay Medford was an American stage and screen actress best known for her Tony- and Oscar-nominated portrayal of Fanny Brice’s mother in the musical and film "Funny Girl."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
former actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1968-03-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Riverside, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Stargate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Crying Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarredWith |
Forest Whitaker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Spader NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurt Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ Miranda Richardson NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Rea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black British
ⓘ
mixed-race ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| filmDebut | The Crying Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jaye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | dark brown ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.60 m ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying a transgender woman in The Crying Game ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Jaye Davidson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British-American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | 1993 Academy Awards ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Stargate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Crying Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
model ⓘ |
| parentOccupation | father was a Ghanaian diplomat ⓘ |
| parentOrigin | mother was English ⓘ |
| releaseYear |
1992
ⓘ
1994 ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| retiredFrom | acting ⓘ |
| role |
Dil
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1992–1996 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jaye Davidson Description of subject: Jaye Davidson is a British-American former actor and model best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Dil in the 1992 film "The Crying Game."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.