Jonathan Ford
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Jonathan Ford is a senior naval officer and executive officer aboard the seaQuest DSV in the science fiction television series "seaQuest DSV."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Ford canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5188636 — 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: Jonathan Ford Context triple: [Nathan Bridger, notableRelationship, Jonathan Ford]
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A.
David Ford
David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
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B.
Robert Fletcher
Robert Fletcher was an American costume designer best known for creating the iconic uniforms and outfits for the early Star Trek films.
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C.
Paul Ford
Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
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D.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
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E.
Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai is an American writer, editor, and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Hard Case Crime imprint and for his award-winning crime and mystery fiction.
- 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: Jonathan Ford Target entity description: Jonathan Ford is a senior naval officer and executive officer aboard the seaQuest DSV in the science fiction television series "seaQuest DSV."
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A.
David Ford
David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
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B.
Robert Fletcher
Robert Fletcher was an American costume designer best known for creating the iconic uniforms and outfits for the early Star Trek films.
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C.
Paul Ford
Paul Ford was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in mid-20th-century film and television, including his portrayal of blustery authority figures.
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D.
Douglas Roberts
Douglas Roberts is known primarily as one of the sons of American cable television pioneer and Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts.
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E.
Charles Ardai
Charles Ardai is an American writer, editor, and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Hard Case Crime imprint and for his award-winning crime and mystery fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
naval officer ⓘ |
| appearsIn | seaQuest DSV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | science fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | television series ⓘ |
| commandStructure | reports to Captain Nathan Bridger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
UEO
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Earth Oceans Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | character in a television series ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | seaQuest DSV Season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Jonathan Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | military science fiction character ⓘ |
| loyalty | United Earth Oceans Organization NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Don Franklin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position |
XO of seaQuest DSV
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executive officer ⓘ |
| rank |
commander
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senior naval officer ⓘ |
| role | second-in-command of seaQuest DSV ⓘ |
| servesOn | seaQuest DSV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceBranch | United Earth Oceans Organization Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| universe | seaQuest DSV universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vesselType | deep-submergence vehicle ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Ford Description of subject: Jonathan Ford is a senior naval officer and executive officer aboard the seaQuest DSV in the science fiction television series "seaQuest DSV."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nathan Bridger