Zack Mayo
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Zack Mayo is the ambitious yet troubled U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate portrayed by Richard Gere in the film "An Officer and a Gentleman."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zack Mayo canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6464744 — 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: Zack Mayo Context triple: [An Officer and a Gentleman, mainCharacter, Zack Mayo]
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A.
Zach Mills
Zach Mills is an American actor best known for his role in the science fiction film "Super 8" and other family-oriented movies and television projects.
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B.
Jarod Mayo
Jarod Mayo is a former New England Patriots linebacker and team captain known for his tackling, leadership, and later transition into NFL coaching.
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C.
Zane Holtz
Zane Holtz is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Richie Gecko in the television adaptation of "From Dusk Till Dawn."
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D.
Zach Hanson
Zach Hanson is an American musician best known as the youngest member and drummer of the pop-rock band Hanson.
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E.
Zack Villere
Zack Villere is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for his lo-fi, introspective indie pop and experimental R&B-influenced music.
- 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: Zack Mayo Target entity description: Zack Mayo is the ambitious yet troubled U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate portrayed by Richard Gere in the film "An Officer and a Gentleman."
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A.
Zach Mills
Zach Mills is an American actor best known for his role in the science fiction film "Super 8" and other family-oriented movies and television projects.
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B.
Jarod Mayo
Jarod Mayo is a former New England Patriots linebacker and team captain known for his tackling, leadership, and later transition into NFL coaching.
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C.
Zane Holtz
Zane Holtz is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Richie Gecko in the television adaptation of "From Dusk Till Dawn."
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D.
Zach Hanson
Zach Hanson is an American musician best known as the youngest member and drummer of the pop-rock band Hanson.
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E.
Zack Villere
Zack Villere is an American singer, songwriter, and producer known for his lo-fi, introspective indie pop and experimental R&B-influenced music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | United States Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | An Officer and a Gentleman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
determined ⓘ rebellious ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| creator | Douglas Day Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | An Officer and a Gentleman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Zachary Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | romantic drama film character ⓘ |
| givenName | Zack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFather | Byron Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableScene | carries Paula out of the factory in his dress whites at the end of the film ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard Gere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| romanticallyInvolvedWith | Paula Pokrifki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | U.S. Navy Aviation Officer Candidate School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
class differences
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romance ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
| trainedBy | Emil Foley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| undergoes |
military training
ⓘ
personal growth arc ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1982 ⓘ |
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: Zack Mayo Description of subject: Zack Mayo is the ambitious yet troubled U.S. Navy aviation officer candidate portrayed by Richard Gere in the film "An Officer and a Gentleman."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
subject surface form:
Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley
subject surface form:
Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley