Larry James
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Larry James was an American sprinter best known for winning gold and silver medals in the 400 meters and 4×400-meter relay at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry James canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2437294 — 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: Larry James Context triple: [White Plains High School, hasAlumnus, Larry James]
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A.
Jerry Dandrige
Jerry Dandrige is the charismatic yet sinister vampire antagonist in the 2011 horror-comedy film "Fright Night."
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B.
Clifton James
Clifton James was an American character actor best known for his comic portrayals of Southern lawmen in films such as the James Bond movies Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun.
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C.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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D.
Glen Graham
Glen Graham is an American rock drummer best known as the percussionist for the alternative rock band Blind Melon.
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E.
Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
- 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: Larry James Target entity description: Larry James was an American sprinter best known for winning gold and silver medals in the 400 meters and 4×400-meter relay at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
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A.
Jerry Dandrige
Jerry Dandrige is the charismatic yet sinister vampire antagonist in the 2011 horror-comedy film "Fright Night."
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B.
Clifton James
Clifton James was an American character actor best known for his comic portrayals of Southern lawmen in films such as the James Bond movies Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun.
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C.
Alan Osbiston
Alan Osbiston was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including major war and drama productions.
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D.
Glen Graham
Glen Graham is an American rock drummer best known as the percussionist for the alternative rock band Blind Melon.
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E.
Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athlete
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human ⓘ sprinter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryRepresented | United States of America ⓘ |
| event |
400 metres
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4×400 metres relay ⓘ |
| familyName | James ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| medal |
Olympic gold medal
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Olympic silver medal ⓘ |
| medalTypeIn400m1968 | silver ⓘ |
| medalTypeIn4x400mRelay1968 | gold ⓘ |
| notableFor |
performance in the 400 metres
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performance in the 4×400 metres relay ⓘ winning medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics ⓘ |
| occupation | sprinter ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 1968 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| placeOfCompetition | Mexico City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| specialty |
400 metres
ⓘ
4×400 metres relay ⓘ |
| sport |
athletics
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track and field ⓘ |
| wonMedalIn |
400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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4×400 metres relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
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: Larry James Description of subject: Larry James was an American sprinter best known for winning gold and silver medals in the 400 meters and 4×400-meter relay at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.