Jon Polito
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Jon Polito was an American character actor known for his frequent collaborations with the Coen brothers and his distinctive roles in film and television, including crime dramas and dark comedies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jon Polito canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8278831 — 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: Jon Polito Context triple: [Miller's Crossing, starredActor, Jon Polito]
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A.
Anthony Dominici
Anthony Dominici is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the reality competition series "America's Next Top Model."
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B.
John DiIulio
John DiIulio is an American political scientist and public policy expert known for his work on criminal justice, faith-based initiatives, and government performance.
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C.
Richard Santulli
Richard Santulli is an American entrepreneur best known as a pioneer of the fractional jet ownership industry and longtime leader of NetJets.
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D.
John Femia
John Femia is an actor known for playing the character Marshall Blechtman.
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E.
John Pasquin
John Pasquin is an American film and television director known for his work on popular comedies, including collaborations with Tim Allen and the film Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.
- 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: Jon Polito Target entity description: Jon Polito was an American character actor known for his frequent collaborations with the Coen brothers and his distinctive roles in film and television, including crime dramas and dark comedies.
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A.
Anthony Dominici
Anthony Dominici is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the reality competition series "America's Next Top Model."
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B.
John DiIulio
John DiIulio is an American political scientist and public policy expert known for his work on criminal justice, faith-based initiatives, and government performance.
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C.
Richard Santulli
Richard Santulli is an American entrepreneur best known as a pioneer of the fractional jet ownership industry and longtime leader of NetJets.
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D.
John Femia
John Femia is an actor known for playing the character Marshall Blechtman.
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E.
John Pasquin
John Pasquin is an American film and television director known for his work on popular comedies, including collaborations with Tim Allen and the film Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
character actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Barton Fink
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Homicide: Life on the Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Miller's Crossing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Lebowski NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hudsucker Proxy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocketeer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Obie Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Jon Raymond Polito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | multiple myeloma ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-12-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-09-01 ⓘ |
| education | Villanova University (attended) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | Italian American ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinctive gravelly voice
ⓘ
portrayal of gangsters and tough characters ⓘ |
| name | Jon Polito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | frequent collaborations with the Coen brothers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Barton Fink
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Big Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ Homicide: Life on the Street NERFINISHED ⓘ Miller's Crossing NERFINISHED ⓘ Seinfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Lebowski NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crow NERFINISHED ⓘ The Freshman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hudsucker Proxy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocketeer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| placeOfDeath | Duarte, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Darryl Armbruster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Coen brothers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ethan Coen NERFINISHED ⓘ Joel Coen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–2016 ⓘ |
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: Jon Polito Description of subject: Jon Polito was an American character actor known for his frequent collaborations with the Coen brothers and his distinctive roles in film and television, including crime dramas and dark comedies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.