Mark Sway
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Mark Sway is the young, streetwise boy protagonist of John Grisham's legal thriller "The Client," whose accidental knowledge of a mob-related secret puts him in grave danger and at the center of a high-stakes legal battle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Sway canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5706187 — 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: Mark Sway Context triple: [The Client (1994 film), character, Mark Sway]
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A.
Nick Swinmurn
Nick Swinmurn is an American entrepreneur best known for creating the online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos, which became a pioneering force in e-commerce and customer service.
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B.
Blake Worsley
Blake Worsley is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle events and represented Canada at international competitions, including the Olympic Games.
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C.
Chris Wyse
Chris Wyse is an American rock bassist best known for his work with bands like The Cult and Owl, as well as for his extensive session and touring collaborations.
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D.
Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger is a British film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the science fiction thriller "Gravity."
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E.
Mark Bramble
Mark Bramble was an American theatre director and writer best known for co-writing and directing major Broadway musicals, including the hit revival of "42nd Street."
- 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: Mark Sway Target entity description: Mark Sway is the young, streetwise boy protagonist of John Grisham's legal thriller "The Client," whose accidental knowledge of a mob-related secret puts him in grave danger and at the center of a high-stakes legal battle.
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A.
Nick Swinmurn
Nick Swinmurn is an American entrepreneur best known for creating the online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos, which became a pioneering force in e-commerce and customer service.
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B.
Blake Worsley
Blake Worsley is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle events and represented Canada at international competitions, including the Olympic Games.
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C.
Chris Wyse
Chris Wyse is an American rock bassist best known for his work with bands like The Cult and Owl, as well as for his extensive session and touring collaborations.
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D.
Mark Sanger
Mark Sanger is a British film editor best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the science fiction thriller "Gravity."
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E.
Mark Bramble
Mark Bramble was an American theatre director and writer best known for co-writing and directing major Broadway musicals, including the hit revival of "42nd Street."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Client NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptation | The Client (1994 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | legal thriller ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
child endangerment
ⓘ
legal ethics ⓘ witness protection ⓘ |
| centralConflict | whether to reveal the mob secret ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Grisham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Client (1993 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext |
crime fiction
ⓘ
suspense fiction ⓘ |
| hasAge | young boy ⓘ |
| hasCitizenship | United States (fictional) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Sway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasKnowledgeOf | mob-related secret ⓘ |
| hasMother | Dianne Sway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | student ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Dianne Sway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ricky Sway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Ricky Sway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrait | streetwise ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Reggie Love
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roy Foltrigg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| involvedIn | high-stakes legal battle ⓘ |
| isInDanger | grave danger ⓘ |
| isTargetOf | organized crime ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | child witness ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brad Renfro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Client NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protectedBy | FBI (in story context) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesIn | trailer park (in story) ⓘ |
| seeks | legal protection ⓘ |
| seeksHelpFrom | Reggie Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | Memphis, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
Barry Muldanno
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
the mob ⓘ |
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: Mark Sway Description of subject: Mark Sway is the young, streetwise boy protagonist of John Grisham's legal thriller "The Client," whose accidental knowledge of a mob-related secret puts him in grave danger and at the center of a high-stakes legal battle.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.