James Doohan
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James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Doohan canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5143600 — 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: James Doohan Context triple: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, starring, James Doohan]
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A.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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B.
William Shatner
William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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C.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
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D.
James McDivitt
James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
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E.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
- 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: James Doohan Target entity description: James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
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A.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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B.
William Shatner
William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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C.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
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D.
James McDivitt
James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
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E.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 85 ⓘ |
| ashesLaunchedIntoSpace | true ⓘ |
| authored | Beam Me Up, Scotty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | James Montgomery Doohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
Alzheimer's disease
ⓘ
pneumonia ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-03-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2005-07-20 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| familyName | Doohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Scottish-accented English (performance) ⓘ |
| lostBodyPart | right middle finger ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royal Canadian Artillery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | James Doohan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Jimmy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Star Trek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek III: The Search for Spock NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek V: The Final Frontier NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Generations NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Animated Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Motion Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Original Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 7 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
voice actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | D-Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Redmond, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montgomery Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | Canadian Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anita Yagel
NERFINISHED
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Janet Young NERFINISHED ⓘ Wende Braunberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wasWoundedIn | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedWith |
DeForest Kelley
NERFINISHED
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Gene Roddenberry NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonard Nimoy NERFINISHED ⓘ William Shatner 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: James Doohan Description of subject: James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.