John Brotherton
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John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Brotherton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1748167 — 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 Brotherton Context triple: [The Conjuring, castMember, John Brotherton]
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A.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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B.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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C.
Gustav Hamilton
Gustav Hamilton was a 17th-century Scottish-born Swedish military officer and nobleman known for his service in the Swedish army and governance roles in the Baltic region.
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D.
Matthew Stirling
Matthew Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his contributions to the study of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
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E.
David Dickson
David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
- 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 Brotherton Target entity description: John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
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A.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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B.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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C.
Gustav Hamilton
Gustav Hamilton was a 17th-century Scottish-born Swedish military officer and nobleman known for his service in the Swedish army and governance roles in the Baltic region.
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D.
Matthew Stirling
Matthew Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his contributions to the study of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
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E.
David Dickson
David Dickson was a prominent 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister and theologian known for his influential role in the Covenanter movement and his widely read biblical commentaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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Dexter ⓘ Friends with Benefits ⓘ Fuller House ⓘ Furious 7 ⓘ One Life to Live ⓘ The Conjuring ⓘ The Conjuring 2 ⓘ |
| characterInWork | Matt Harmon in Fuller House ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Brotherton ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | John Brotherton self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fuller House
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Furious 7 ⓘ One Life to Live ⓘ The Conjuring ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Matt Harmon ⓘ |
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 Brotherton Description of subject: John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.