Damon Wayans
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Damon Wayans is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer best known for his work on the sketch comedy show "In Living Color" and sitcoms like "My Wife and Kids."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Damon Wayans canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6349440 — 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: Damon Wayans Context triple: [Marlon Wayans, sibling, Damon Wayans]
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A.
Marlon Wayans
Marlon Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer known for his work in films and television series such as the Scary Movie franchise, White Chicks, and In Living Color.
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B.
Damon Wayans Jr.
Damon Wayans Jr. is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on the TV series "Happy Endings" and "New Girl," as well as for his work in film and voice acting.
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C.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans is an American comedian, actor, writer, and filmmaker best known for creating the sketch comedy series "In Living Color" and directing several successful parody and comedy films.
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D.
Shawn Wayans
Shawn Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known as a member of the Wayans family comedy dynasty and for co-creating and starring in films like the Scary Movie series and the sitcom The Wayans Bros.
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E.
Cedric the Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer is an American comedian, actor, and game show host known for his stand-up comedy, roles in films like "Barbershop," and work on "The Steve Harvey Show."
- 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: Damon Wayans Target entity description: Damon Wayans is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer best known for his work on the sketch comedy show "In Living Color" and sitcoms like "My Wife and Kids."
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A.
Marlon Wayans
Marlon Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer known for his work in films and television series such as the Scary Movie franchise, White Chicks, and In Living Color.
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B.
Damon Wayans Jr.
Damon Wayans Jr. is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles on the TV series "Happy Endings" and "New Girl," as well as for his work in film and voice acting.
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C.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans is an American comedian, actor, writer, and filmmaker best known for creating the sketch comedy series "In Living Color" and directing several successful parody and comedy films.
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D.
Shawn Wayans
Shawn Wayans is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known as a member of the Wayans family comedy dynasty and for co-creating and starring in films like the Scary Movie series and the sitcom The Wayans Bros.
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E.
Cedric the Entertainer
Cedric the Entertainer is an American comedian, actor, and game show host known for his stand-up comedy, roles in films like "Barbershop," and work on "The Steve Harvey Show."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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comedian ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| child |
Cara Mia Wayans
NERFINISHED
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Damon Wayans Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyla Wayans NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Wayans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-09-04 ⓘ |
| employer |
In Living Color
NERFINISHED
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Saturday Night Live NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Wayans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Damon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Wayans family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Damon Wayans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Michael Kyle in My Wife and Kids
NERFINISHED
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Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ various characters on In Living Color ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blankman
NERFINISHED
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Damon NERFINISHED ⓘ In Living Color NERFINISHED ⓘ Lethal Weapon (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Major Payne NERFINISHED ⓘ Mo’ Money NERFINISHED ⓘ My Wife and Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Boy Scout NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ producer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Harlem
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
| sibling |
Keenen Ivory Wayans
NERFINISHED
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Kim Wayans NERFINISHED ⓘ Marlon Wayans NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawn Wayans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Lisa Thorner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
David Alan Grier
NERFINISHED
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Jim Carrey NERFINISHED ⓘ Keenen Ivory Wayans 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: Damon Wayans Description of subject: Damon Wayans is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer best known for his work on the sketch comedy show "In Living Color" and sitcoms like "My Wife and Kids."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.