John Coffey
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John Coffey is a gentle, wrongfully condemned death row inmate with miraculous healing powers in Stephen King’s story "The Green Mile."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Coffey canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714650 — 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 Coffey Context triple: [The Green Mile, mainCharacter, John Coffey]
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A.
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb)
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb) is the fictional serial killer and primary antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for his gruesome crimes that drive the story's investigation.
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B.
Clubber Lang
Clubber Lang is the fierce, hard-hitting boxing antagonist portrayed by Mr. T in the film Rocky III.
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C.
Abner
Abner is a prominent Old Testament military commander and political figure in the Hebrew Bible, known especially for his role in the power struggles following King Saul’s death.
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D.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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E.
Willie Horton
Willie Horton is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter best known as a longtime Detroit Tigers star and key contributor to their 1968 World Series championship team.
- 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 Coffey Target entity description: John Coffey is a gentle, wrongfully condemned death row inmate with miraculous healing powers in Stephen King’s story "The Green Mile."
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A.
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb)
Buffalo Bill (Jame Gumb) is the fictional serial killer and primary antagonist in Thomas Harris's novel and its film adaptation "The Silence of the Lambs," known for his gruesome crimes that drive the story's investigation.
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B.
Clubber Lang
Clubber Lang is the fierce, hard-hitting boxing antagonist portrayed by Mr. T in the film Rocky III.
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C.
Abner
Abner is a prominent Old Testament military commander and political figure in the Hebrew Bible, known especially for his role in the power struggles following King Saul’s death.
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D.
Harmon Jones
Harmon Jones was an American film editor and director active in Hollywood during the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable studio productions.
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E.
Willie Horton
Willie Horton is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter best known as a longtime Detroit Tigers star and key contributor to their 1968 World Series championship team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
death row inmate
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ healer ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Green Mile ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
capital punishment
ⓘ
injustice ⓘ miracles ⓘ racism ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| executionMethod | electric chair ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationOf |
The Green Mile
ⓘ
surface form:
The Green Mile (1999 film)
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| firstPublicationAppearance |
The Green Mile
ⓘ
surface form:
The Green Mile (1996 serial novel)
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| formsBondWith |
Brutus Howell
ⓘ
Paul Edgecombe ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalAbility |
empathic pain absorption
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healing ⓘ miracle working ⓘ |
| heldAt | Cold Mountain Penitentiary ⓘ |
| heldOnCellBlock | E Block ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
drama
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| moralViewOnOwnExecution | accepts as a release from the cruelty of the world ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| notableAct |
heals Paul Edgecombe’s urinary infection
ⓘ
heals Warden Hal Moores’s wife Melinda ⓘ revives Mr. Jingles the mouse ⓘ |
| notableQuote | I’m tired, boss. Tired of bein’ on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
childlike
ⓘ
compassionate ⓘ gentle ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Michael Clarke Duncan ⓘ |
| sentencedTo | death ⓘ |
| settingUniverse | The Green Mile universe ⓘ |
| skinColor | Black ⓘ |
| symbolism |
Christ-like figure
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innocence ⓘ sacrificial victim ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Great Depression
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surface form:
Great Depression era
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| transfersAfflictionTo |
Percy Wetmore
ⓘ
William Wharton ⓘ |
| wrongfullyConvictedOf | rape and murder of two girls ⓘ |
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 Coffey Description of subject: John Coffey is a gentle, wrongfully condemned death row inmate with miraculous healing powers in Stephen King’s story "The Green Mile."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brutus "Brutal" Howell