John Hurley
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John Hurley is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Hurley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5163829 — 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 Hurley Context triple: [Hurley, hasNotableBearer, John Hurley]
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A.
Jack Shephard
Jack Shephard is the central spinal surgeon and reluctant leader of the crash survivors in the television series "Lost."
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B.
Timothy McGee
Timothy McGee is a technically skilled and intelligent NCIS special agent known for his computer expertise, analytical mind, and evolution from timid rookie to confident investigator on the TV series "NCIS."
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C.
Jack Shepherd
Jack Shepherd is a British actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Charlotte Gray."
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D.
Sam Harper
Sam Harper is a screenwriter best known for writing family-friendly comedy films such as "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "Freaky Friday."
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E.
Jason Seaver
Jason Seaver is the wisecracking psychiatrist father and central figure of the 1980s American sitcom "Growing Pains."
- 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 Hurley Target entity description: John Hurley is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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A.
Jack Shephard
Jack Shephard is the central spinal surgeon and reluctant leader of the crash survivors in the television series "Lost."
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B.
Timothy McGee
Timothy McGee is a technically skilled and intelligent NCIS special agent known for his computer expertise, analytical mind, and evolution from timid rookie to confident investigator on the TV series "NCIS."
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C.
Jack Shepherd
Jack Shepherd is a British actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "Charlotte Gray."
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D.
Sam Harper
Sam Harper is a screenwriter best known for writing family-friendly comedy films such as "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "Freaky Friday."
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E.
Jason Seaver
Jason Seaver is the wisecracking psychiatrist father and central figure of the 1980s American sitcom "Growing Pains."
- F. None of above. chosen
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 Hurley Description of subject: John Hurley is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.