Danny DeVito
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Danny DeVito is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his distinctive stature, gravelly voice, and memorable roles in film and television spanning several decades.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Danny DeVito canonical | 70 |
| Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. | 1 |
| DeVito | 1 |
| Martin Weir – Danny DeVito | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T597737 — 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: Danny DeVito Context triple: [It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, starring, Danny DeVito]
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A.
John Lithgow
John Lithgow is an American actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, known for roles ranging from the sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" to dramatic turns in works like "The Crown" and "Dexter."
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B.
Burt Young
Burt Young was an American character actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Paulie Pennino, Rocky Balboa’s gruff but loyal friend, in the Rocky film series.
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C.
Blake Perlman
Blake Perlman is an American actress and singer known for roles in film and television, including appearances in projects associated with her father, actor Ron Perlman.
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D.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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E.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
- 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: Danny DeVito Target entity description: Danny DeVito is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his distinctive stature, gravelly voice, and memorable roles in film and television spanning several decades.
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A.
John Lithgow
John Lithgow is an American actor acclaimed for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater, known for roles ranging from the sitcom "3rd Rock from the Sun" to dramatic turns in works like "The Crown" and "Dexter."
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B.
Burt Young
Burt Young was an American character actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Paulie Pennino, Rocky Balboa’s gruff but loyal friend, in the Rocky film series.
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C.
Blake Perlman
Blake Perlman is an American actress and singer known for roles in film and television, including appearances in projects associated with her father, actor Ron Perlman.
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D.
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky is an American character actor and storyteller known for his prolific film and television work, including memorable roles in projects like "Groundhog Day" and numerous other mainstream movies and series.
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E.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Danny DeVito Description of subject: Danny DeVito is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker known for his distinctive stature, gravelly voice, and memorable roles in film and television spanning several decades.
Referenced by (73)
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