Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr.
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Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr., better known as Alex Rocco, was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on "The Famous Teddy Z" and his portrayal of Moe Greene in "The Godfather."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9752885 — 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: Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr. Context triple: [Alex Rocco, birthName, Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr.]
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A.
Jake Siciliano
Jake Siciliano is an American actor best known for his role as Martin Solloway on the television drama series "The Affair."
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B.
Luca Ferraro
Luca Ferraro is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Ferraro.
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C.
Angelo Iachino
Angelo Iachino was an Italian admiral of the Regia Marina during World War II, known for leading major naval operations in the Mediterranean.
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D.
Santino Fontana
Santino Fontana is an American actor and singer best known for his work on Broadway and in film and television, including his Tony-winning performance in the musical "Tootsie."
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E.
Dante Ricci
Dante Ricci is a sibling of American actress Christina Ricci, known primarily for his family connection to the Hollywood star.
- 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: Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr. Target entity description: Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr., better known as Alex Rocco, was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on "The Famous Teddy Z" and his portrayal of Moe Greene in "The Godfather."
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A.
Jake Siciliano
Jake Siciliano is an American actor best known for his role as Martin Solloway on the television drama series "The Affair."
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B.
Luca Ferraro
Luca Ferraro is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Ferraro.
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C.
Angelo Iachino
Angelo Iachino was an Italian admiral of the Regia Marina during World War II, known for leading major naval operations in the Mediterranean.
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D.
Santino Fontana
Santino Fontana is an American actor and singer best known for his work on Broadway and in film and television, including his Tony-winning performance in the musical "Tootsie."
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E.
Dante Ricci
Dante Ricci is a sibling of American actress Christina Ricci, known primarily for his family connection to the Hollywood star.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Alex Rocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award
NERFINISHED
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | The Famous Teddy Z NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pancreatic cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Jennifer Rocco
NERFINISHED
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Lucien Rocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-02-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-07-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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crime film ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Bug's Life
NERFINISHED
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Detroit 9000 NERFINISHED ⓘ Get Shorty NERFINISHED ⓘ That Thing You Do! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Entity NERFINISHED ⓘ The Facts of Life NERFINISHED ⓘ The Famous Teddy Z NERFINISHED ⓘ The Friends of Eddie Coyle NERFINISHED ⓘ The George Carlin Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Godfather NERFINISHED ⓘ The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stunt Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Studio City, Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Roger Myers Jr. in The Simpsons ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| role |
Al Floss in The Famous Teddy Z
NERFINISHED
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Moe Greene in The Godfather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Grace Petricone
NERFINISHED
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Sharman Divono NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Alex Rocco 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: Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr. Description of subject: Alessandro Federico Petricone Jr., better known as Alex Rocco, was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role on "The Famous Teddy Z" and his portrayal of Moe Greene in "The Godfather."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.