John Bridger
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John Bridger is a veteran safecracker and mentor figure in the 2003 heist film "The Italian Job," known for planning intricate robberies and leading a close-knit crew.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Bridger canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2274428 — 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 Bridger Context triple: [The Italian Job (2003 film), mainCharacter, John Bridger]
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A.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
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B.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
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C.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
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D.
Richard Straker
Richard Straker is a sinister antique dealer and human servant to the vampire Kurt Barlow in Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot."
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E.
Conrad Jarrett
Conrad Jarrett is the troubled teenage protagonist of Judith Guest’s novel and the film "Ordinary People," struggling with survivor’s guilt, depression, and family dysfunction after his brother’s death.
- 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 Bridger Target entity description: John Bridger is a veteran safecracker and mentor figure in the 2003 heist film "The Italian Job," known for planning intricate robberies and leading a close-knit crew.
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A.
John Gurney
John Gurney was a prominent English Quaker banker and member of the influential Gurney family of Norwich.
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B.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
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C.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
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D.
Richard Straker
Richard Straker is a sinister antique dealer and human servant to the vampire Kurt Barlow in Stephen King’s horror novel "Salem’s Lot."
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E.
Conrad Jarrett
Conrad Jarrett is the troubled teenage protagonist of Judith Guest’s novel and the film "Ordinary People," struggling with survivor’s guilt, depression, and family dysfunction after his brother’s death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | F. Gary Gray ⓘ |
| alignment | professional thief with a moral code ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Italian Job
ⓘ
surface form:
The Italian Job (2003 film)
|
| appearsInGenre |
action film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Charlie Croker
ⓘ
Stella Bridger ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
The Italian Job
ⓘ
surface form:
The Italian Job (1969 film)
|
| countryOfFictionalCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Troy Kennedy Martin ⓘ |
| deathInWork | killed during betrayal in heist ⓘ |
| familyRelation | father of Stella Bridger ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Italian Job
ⓘ
surface form:
The Italian Job (2003 film)
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | heist film character ⓘ |
| knownFor |
planning intricate robberies
ⓘ
safecracking expertise ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leads | heist crew ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | mentor to Charlie Croker ⓘ |
| notableSkill |
opening high-security safes
ⓘ
strategic planning ⓘ |
| occupation | safecracker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Donald Sutherland ⓘ |
| role |
heist planner
ⓘ
mentor ⓘ |
| worksWith | close-knit crew of thieves ⓘ |
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 Bridger Description of subject: John Bridger is a veteran safecracker and mentor figure in the 2003 heist film "The Italian Job," known for planning intricate robberies and leading a close-knit crew.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Italian Job (2003 film)
subject surface form:
Stella Bridger
subject surface form:
Stella Bridger
subject surface form:
Lyle