Jim Beaver
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Jim Beaver is an American character actor and writer best known for his roles in television series like "Deadwood" and "Supernatural," as well as numerous film appearances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Beaver canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T695994 — 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: Jim Beaver Context triple: [Crimson Peak, castMember, Jim Beaver]
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A.
Dick Howser
Dick Howser was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to their first World Series championship in 1985.
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B.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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C.
Harvey Shephard
Harvey Shephard is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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D.
Hank O’Day
Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
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E.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
- 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: Jim Beaver Target entity description: Jim Beaver is an American character actor and writer best known for his roles in television series like "Deadwood" and "Supernatural," as well as numerous film appearances.
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A.
Dick Howser
Dick Howser was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to their first World Series championship in 1985.
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B.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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C.
Harvey Shephard
Harvey Shephard is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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D.
Hank O’Day
Hank O’Day was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire and former pitcher, best known for his long umpiring career and involvement in several historic games and controversies.
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E.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American cinema
ⓘ
surface form:
American film industry
American television industry ⓘ |
| birthName | James Norman Beaver Jr. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-08-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Fort Worth Christian College
ⓘ
Oklahoma Christian University ⓘ |
| familyName | Beaver ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film history
ⓘ
performing arts ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
character acting in American television
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role of Bobby Singer in Supernatural ⓘ role of Whitney Ellsworth in Deadwood ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Marine Corps ⓘ |
| name | Jim Beaver self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Life's That Way
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acting role in Deadwood ⓘ acting role in Supernatural ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film historian ⓘ playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Laramie, Wyoming
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surface form:
Laramie, Wyoming, United States
|
| portrayed |
Corporal Stock in In Country
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Gunny in Crimson Tide ⓘ Lawson in Better Call Saul ⓘ Lawson in Breaking Bad ⓘ Roger in Sister Act ⓘ Sheriff Shelby Parlow in Justified ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Cecily Adams ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Jim Beaver Description of subject: Jim Beaver is an American character actor and writer best known for his roles in television series like "Deadwood" and "Supernatural," as well as numerous film appearances.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.