Lennie James as Joe Brown
E219094
Lennie James as Joe Brown refers to the British actor’s portrayal of James Brown’s abusive father in the biographical film "Get on Up."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lennie James as Joe Brown canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1951806 — 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: Lennie James as Joe Brown Context triple: [Get on Up, characterRole, Lennie James as Joe Brown]
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A.
Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert Penry-Jones is a British actor known for his roles in television dramas such as "Spooks" and "Silk," as well as various film and stage productions.
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B.
John Simm
John Simm is an English actor and musician best known for his roles in television series such as "Life on Mars," "Doctor Who," and "State of Play."
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C.
Freddie Fox
Freddie Fox is an English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, and as a member of the prominent Fox acting family.
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D.
Jonny Lee Miller
Jonny Lee Miller is a British actor best known for his roles in films like "Trainspotting" and the TV series "Elementary," in which he played a modern-day Sherlock Holmes.
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E.
Harry Reeves
Harry Reeves was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated films, including contributing to the screenplay of the 1950 feature "Cinderella."
- 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: Lennie James as Joe Brown Target entity description: Lennie James as Joe Brown refers to the British actor’s portrayal of James Brown’s abusive father in the biographical film "Get on Up."
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A.
Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert Penry-Jones is a British actor known for his roles in television dramas such as "Spooks" and "Silk," as well as various film and stage productions.
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B.
John Simm
John Simm is an English actor and musician best known for his roles in television series such as "Life on Mars," "Doctor Who," and "State of Play."
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C.
Freddie Fox
Freddie Fox is an English actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, and as a member of the prominent Fox acting family.
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D.
Jonny Lee Miller
Jonny Lee Miller is a British actor best known for his roles in films like "Trainspotting" and the TV series "Elementary," in which he played a modern-day Sherlock Holmes.
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E.
Harry Reeves
Harry Reeves was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated films, including contributing to the screenplay of the 1950 feature "Cinderella."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biographicalFilm
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fictionalizedPerson ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedOn | Joseph Gardner Brown ⓘ |
| castMember |
Chadwick Boseman
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Dan Aykroyd ⓘ Lennie James ⓘ Octavia Spencer ⓘ Viola Davis ⓘ |
| child | James Brown ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Tate Taylor ⓘ |
| genre |
biographicalDramaFilm
ⓘ
musicalDramaFilm ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | James Brown ⓘ |
| nickname | Godfather of Soul ⓘ |
| notableRole | Joe Brown in Get on Up ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fear the Walking Dead
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Get on Up ⓘ Line of Duty ⓘ The Walking Dead ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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musician ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| portrayed | Joe Brown ⓘ |
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: Lennie James as Joe Brown Description of subject: Lennie James as Joe Brown refers to the British actor’s portrayal of James Brown’s abusive father in the biographical film "Get on Up."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.