Donnie Wayne Johnson
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Donnie Wayne Johnson is an American actor, producer, director, and singer best known for his role as Detective Sonny Crockett on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donnie Wayne Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6296365 — 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: Donnie Wayne Johnson Context triple: [Don Johnson, birthName, Donnie Wayne Johnson]
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A.
Donnie Wilson
Donnie Wilson is a skilled and street-smart member of an elite Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unit in the action-crime film "Den of Thieves."
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B.
Lonnie Shelton
Lonnie Shelton was an American professional basketball player best known as a rugged, defensive-minded forward and key contributor to the Seattle SuperSonics’ late-1970s success.
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C.
Wayne Hardin
Wayne Hardin was a prominent American college football coach best known for his successful tenures leading the Navy Midshipmen and Temple Owls programs.
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D.
Donnie Shell
Donnie Shell is a former NFL safety best known for his hard-hitting play and key role in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ dominant 1970s dynasty, earning multiple Pro Bowl selections and induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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E.
Clay Johnson
Clay Johnson is the nephew of fictional LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the television series "The Closer."
- 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: Donnie Wayne Johnson Target entity description: Donnie Wayne Johnson is an American actor, producer, director, and singer best known for his role as Detective Sonny Crockett on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
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A.
Donnie Wilson
Donnie Wilson is a skilled and street-smart member of an elite Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unit in the action-crime film "Den of Thieves."
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B.
Lonnie Shelton
Lonnie Shelton was an American professional basketball player best known as a rugged, defensive-minded forward and key contributor to the Seattle SuperSonics’ late-1970s success.
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C.
Wayne Hardin
Wayne Hardin was a prominent American college football coach best known for his successful tenures leading the Navy Midshipmen and Temple Owls programs.
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D.
Donnie Shell
Donnie Shell is a former NFL safety best known for his hard-hitting play and key role in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ dominant 1970s dynasty, earning multiple Pro Bowl selections and induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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E.
Clay Johnson
Clay Johnson is the nephew of fictional LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the television series "The Closer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1969 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
NERFINISHED
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Hollywood Walk of Fame star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1949-12-15 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Flat Creek, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | Miami Vice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Dakota Johnson
NERFINISHED
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Jesse Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
American Conservatory Theater
NERFINISHED
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University of Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Johnson ⓘ |
| fullName | Donnie Wayne Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
pop rock
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soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Donnie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | Detective James "Sonny" Crockett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Boy and His Dog
NERFINISHED
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Django Unchained NERFINISHED ⓘ Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartbeat (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartbeat (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ Knives Out NERFINISHED ⓘ Miami Vice NERFINISHED ⓘ Nash Bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ Tin Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Watchmen (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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director ⓘ producer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Epic Records ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Kelley Phleger
NERFINISHED
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Melanie Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Donnie Wayne Johnson Description of subject: Donnie Wayne Johnson is an American actor, producer, director, and singer best known for his role as Detective Sonny Crockett on the 1980s television series "Miami Vice."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.