John Karlen
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John Karlen was an American character actor best known for his roles in the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" and the crime drama series "Cagney & Lacey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Karlen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913227 — 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: John Karlen Context triple: [Trilogy of Terror, starring, John Karlen]
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A.
Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Reynolds is an American film director best known for helming movies such as "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" and "Waterworld."
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B.
Oren Peli
Oren Peli is an Israeli-American filmmaker best known as the creator of the "Paranormal Activity" franchise and a producer of numerous successful horror films.
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C.
Scott Z. Burns
Scott Z. Burns is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for socially conscious films such as Contagion, The Informant!, and The Report.
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D.
Chris McKenna
Chris McKenna is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on films like the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man series and TV shows such as Community.
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E.
Jon Lucas
Jon Lucas is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the hit comedy film "The Hangover" and creating the sitcom "Mixology."
- 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: John Karlen Target entity description: John Karlen was an American character actor best known for his roles in the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" and the crime drama series "Cagney & Lacey."
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A.
Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Reynolds is an American film director best known for helming movies such as "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" and "Waterworld."
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B.
Oren Peli
Oren Peli is an Israeli-American filmmaker best known as the creator of the "Paranormal Activity" franchise and a producer of numerous successful horror films.
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C.
Scott Z. Burns
Scott Z. Burns is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for socially conscious films such as Contagion, The Informant!, and The Report.
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D.
Chris McKenna
Chris McKenna is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on films like the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man series and TV shows such as Community.
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E.
Jon Lucas
Jon Lucas is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the hit comedy film "The Hangover" and creating the sitcom "Mixology."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Cagney & Lacey (TV series)
NERFINISHED
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Dark Shadows (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Daughters of Darkness (1971 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ House of Dark Shadows (1970 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Is Colder Than Death (stage and screen roles, various) NERFINISHED ⓘ Night of Dark Shadows (1971 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork | Cagney & Lacey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| birthName | John Adam Karlewicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | congestive heart failure ⓘ |
| characterType | character actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-05-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-01-22 ⓘ |
| employer |
ABC
NERFINISHED
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CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Polish-American ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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soap opera ⓘ |
| knownFor |
playing Harvey Lacey on Cagney & Lacey
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playing Willie Loomis on Dark Shadows ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| name | John Karlen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cagney & Lacey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dark Shadows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Burbank, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Betty Karlen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Dan Curtis
NERFINISHED
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Sharon Gless NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyne Daly 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: John Karlen Description of subject: John Karlen was an American character actor best known for his roles in the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" and the crime drama series "Cagney & Lacey."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.