John Wood
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John Wood was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including roles in films such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "WarGames."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Wood canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2834781 — 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 Wood Context triple: [Jumpin' Jack Flash, starred, John Wood]
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A.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur and video game industry pioneer best known as the founder of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
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B.
Tom Wright
Tom Wright is a British architect best known for designing Dubai’s iconic sail-shaped Burj Al Arab hotel.
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C.
John Gatins
John Gatins is an American screenwriter, director, and actor best known for writing character-driven dramas such as the acclaimed film "Flight."
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D.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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E.
Lewis Nixon
Lewis Nixon was a real-life U.S. Army intelligence officer in Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, prominently portrayed in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
- 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 Wood Target entity description: John Wood was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including roles in films such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "WarGames."
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A.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur and video game industry pioneer best known as the founder of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks.
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B.
Tom Wright
Tom Wright is a British architect best known for designing Dubai’s iconic sail-shaped Burj Al Arab hotel.
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C.
John Gatins
John Gatins is an American screenwriter, director, and actor best known for writing character-driven dramas such as the acclaimed film "Flight."
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D.
John Joseph Woods
John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
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E.
Lewis Nixon
Lewis Nixon was a real-life U.S. Army intelligence officer in Easy Company of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, prominently portrayed in the miniseries "Band of Brothers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Wood ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | John Wood ⓘ |
| notableFor |
British theatre performances
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character roles in film ⓘ distinguished stage career ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jumpin' Jack Flash
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Ladyhawke ⓘ Richard III of England ⓘ
surface form:
Richard III
Sabrina ⓘ Shadowlands ⓘ The Madness of King George ⓘ The Purple Rose of Cairo ⓘ WarGames ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
Jumpin' Jack Flash
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WarGames ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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 Wood Description of subject: John Wood was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including roles in films such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "WarGames."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.