Johnny Clay
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Johnny Clay is the meticulous criminal mastermind who orchestrates a complex racetrack heist in Stanley Kubrick’s film "The Killing."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johnny Clay canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042134 — 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: Johnny Clay Context triple: [The Killing, mainCharacter, Johnny Clay]
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A.
Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for 1960s hits like "Secret Agent Man," "Poor Side of Town," and "Memphis."
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B.
Johnny Marks
Johnny Marks was an American songwriter best known for composing classic Christmas songs, including "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
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C.
Tommy Roe
Tommy Roe is an American pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1960s bubblegum and rock hits like "Sheila" and "Dizzy."
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D.
Nat Blake
Nat Blake is a shy, musically gifted orphan boy who becomes one of the central students at Jo Bhaer’s school in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Men."
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E.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
- 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: Johnny Clay Target entity description: Johnny Clay is the meticulous criminal mastermind who orchestrates a complex racetrack heist in Stanley Kubrick’s film "The Killing."
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A.
Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known for 1960s hits like "Secret Agent Man," "Poor Side of Town," and "Memphis."
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B.
Johnny Marks
Johnny Marks was an American songwriter best known for composing classic Christmas songs, including "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
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C.
Tommy Roe
Tommy Roe is an American pop singer-songwriter best known for his 1960s bubblegum and rock hits like "Sheila" and "Dizzy."
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D.
Nat Blake
Nat Blake is a shy, musically gifted orphan boy who becomes one of the central students at Jo Bhaer’s school in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Men."
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E.
Dennis Crosby
Dennis Crosby was an American singer and actor best known as one of Bing Crosby’s sons who performed with his brothers as part of the Crosby family entertainment legacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
criminal mastermind
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Killing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
fatalism ⓘ greed ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Lionel White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Clean Break NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
calculating
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meticulous ⓘ strategic ⓘ |
| createdBy | Stanley Kubrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
crime film
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film noir ⓘ |
| leads | heist crew ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | heist planner ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | orchestrating a racetrack heist ⓘ |
| notableScene | final airport luggage sequence ⓘ |
| occupation | career criminal ⓘ |
| plans | racetrack robbery ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sterling Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of The Killing ⓘ |
| settingOfCrime | horse racetrack ⓘ |
| storyOutcome | heist ultimately fails ⓘ |
| worksWith |
George Peatty
NERFINISHED
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Marvin Unger NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice Oboukhoff NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike O’Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikki Arcane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Johnny Clay Description of subject: Johnny Clay is the meticulous criminal mastermind who orchestrates a complex racetrack heist in Stanley Kubrick’s film "The Killing."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Killing (1956 film)
subject surface form:
The Killing (1956 film)