Jim Sheridan
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Jim Sheridan is an acclaimed Irish filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing powerful dramas such as "In the Name of the Father" and "In America."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Sheridan canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5694024 — 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: Jim Sheridan Context triple: [My Left Foot, director, Jim Sheridan]
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A.
Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and writer best known for directing acclaimed films such as "The Crying Game," "Interview with the Vampire," and "Michael Collins."
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B.
Brendan O’Hare
Brendan O’Hare is a Scottish musician and drummer best known for his work in influential alternative rock bands such as Teenage Fanclub and Mogwai.
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C.
Gavin O’Connor
Gavin O’Connor is an American filmmaker and producer best known for directing character-driven dramas such as "Warrior" and "The Way Back."
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D.
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is an acclaimed Irish-British playwright and filmmaker known for his darkly comic, violent, and emotionally charged works such as "In Bruges" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."
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E.
James Sheridan
James Sheridan is a British newspaper pioneer credited with founding the influential international business daily, the Financial Times.
- 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: Jim Sheridan Target entity description: Jim Sheridan is an acclaimed Irish filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing powerful dramas such as "In the Name of the Father" and "In America."
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A.
Neil Jordan
Neil Jordan is an Irish filmmaker and writer best known for directing acclaimed films such as "The Crying Game," "Interview with the Vampire," and "Michael Collins."
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B.
Brendan O’Hare
Brendan O’Hare is a Scottish musician and drummer best known for his work in influential alternative rock bands such as Teenage Fanclub and Mogwai.
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C.
Gavin O’Connor
Gavin O’Connor is an American filmmaker and producer best known for directing character-driven dramas such as "Warrior" and "The Way Back."
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D.
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is an acclaimed Irish-British playwright and filmmaker known for his darkly comic, violent, and emotionally charged works such as "In Bruges" and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."
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E.
James Sheridan
James Sheridan is a British newspaper pioneer credited with founding the influential international business daily, the Financial Times.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| child |
Kirsten Sheridan
NERFINISHED
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Naomi Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | In America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coWriterWith | Naomi Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-02-06 ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Brothers
NERFINISHED
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Dream House NERFINISHED ⓘ Get Rich or Die Tryin' NERFINISHED ⓘ In America NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Name of the Father NERFINISHED ⓘ My Left Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boxer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with Daniel Day-Lewis
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socially conscious drama films ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Jim Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brothers
NERFINISHED
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Dream House NERFINISHED ⓘ Get Rich or Die Tryin' NERFINISHED ⓘ In America NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Name of the Father NERFINISHED ⓘ My Left Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boxer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producerOf | The Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Kirsten Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf |
In America
NERFINISHED
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In the Name of the Father NERFINISHED ⓘ My Left Foot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Boxer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Fran Sheridan 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: Jim Sheridan Description of subject: Jim Sheridan is an acclaimed Irish filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing powerful dramas such as "In the Name of the Father" and "In America."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.