Max Waters
E322057
Max Waters is a leading artificial intelligence researcher whose consciousness becomes central to the plot of the science fiction film "Transcendence."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Waters canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3067983 — 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: Max Waters Context triple: [Transcendence (2014 film), mainCharacter, Max Waters]
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A.
Christopher Wold Johnson
Christopher Wold Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson & Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
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B.
Roland Wilson
Roland Wilson is a central character in the sitcom "The Golden Palace," known for his role in the ensemble that continues the story of the original "Golden Girls" cast.
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C.
John Curtis Estes
John Curtis Estes is the birth name of John Holmes, a notorious American adult film actor who became one of the most famous pornographic performers of the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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E.
Don Roberts
Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
- 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: Max Waters Target entity description: Max Waters is a leading artificial intelligence researcher whose consciousness becomes central to the plot of the science fiction film "Transcendence."
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A.
Christopher Wold Johnson
Christopher Wold Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson & Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
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B.
Roland Wilson
Roland Wilson is a central character in the sitcom "The Golden Palace," known for his role in the ensemble that continues the story of the original "Golden Girls" cast.
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C.
John Curtis Estes
John Curtis Estes is the birth name of John Holmes, a notorious American adult film actor who became one of the most famous pornographic performers of the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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E.
Don Roberts
Don Roberts is a software engineer and author known for his contributions to object-oriented design and refactoring, including work on the influential book "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Transcendence (2014 film)
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surface form:
Transcendence
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| appearsInGenre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
machine consciousness
ⓘ
technological singularity ⓘ transcendence of human consciousness into a computer ⓘ |
| associatedWithOrganization | Evelyn Caster's research team ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Jack Paglen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | artificial intelligence ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Transcendence (2014 film) ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Evelyn Caster
ⓘ
Will Caster ⓘ |
| hasMoralConflict | about the ethics of artificial intelligence ⓘ |
| hasRelationship |
colleague of Evelyn Caster
ⓘ
colleague of Will Caster ⓘ |
| hasRoleInPlot | central to the film's narrative ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrates |
Transcendence (2014 film)
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surface form:
Transcendence
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| narrativeFunction | serves as the film's moral conscience ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrator of events in Transcendence ⓘ |
| occupation | artificial intelligence researcher ⓘ |
| partOf |
Transcendence (2014 film)
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surface form:
Transcendence (film universe)
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| portrayedBy | Paul Bettany ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Max Waters Description of subject: Max Waters is a leading artificial intelligence researcher whose consciousness becomes central to the plot of the science fiction film "Transcendence."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.