Mister Johnson
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Mister Johnson is a 1990 drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, adapted from Joyce Cary’s novel about a Nigerian clerk navigating British colonial rule in the 1920s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mister Johnson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6027625 — 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: Mister Johnson Context triple: [Bruce Beresford, notableWork, Mister Johnson]
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A.
Mr. Jones
"Mr. Jones" is a hit alternative rock song by Counting Crows, known for its introspective lyrics about fame, dreams, and identity.
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B.
Mr. Jackson
Mr. Jackson is a messy, intrusive toad character in Beatrix Potter’s children’s story "The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse."
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C.
Mr. Brown
Mr. Brown is the kind-hearted but often flustered father figure from the "Paddington" film series.
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D.
Mr. Brown
Mr. Brown is one of the color-coded hijackers in the crime thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three," known for his role in the subway train hostage plot.
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E.
Mr. Smith
"Mr. Smith" is a 1995 hip hop album by LL Cool J that marked a successful commercial comeback and features hits like "Hey Lover" and "Doin' It."
- 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: Mister Johnson Target entity description: Mister Johnson is a 1990 drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, adapted from Joyce Cary’s novel about a Nigerian clerk navigating British colonial rule in the 1920s.
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A.
Mr. Jones
"Mr. Jones" is a hit alternative rock song by Counting Crows, known for its introspective lyrics about fame, dreams, and identity.
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B.
Mr. Jackson
Mr. Jackson is a messy, intrusive toad character in Beatrix Potter’s children’s story "The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse."
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C.
Mr. Brown
Mr. Brown is the kind-hearted but often flustered father figure from the "Paddington" film series.
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D.
Mr. Brown
Mr. Brown is one of the color-coded hijackers in the crime thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three," known for his role in the subway train hostage plot.
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E.
Mr. Smith
"Mr. Smith" is a 1995 hip hop album by LL Cool J that marked a successful commercial comeback and features hits like "Hey Lover" and "Doin' It."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Joyce Cary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mister Johnson (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Andrzej Bartkowiak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Bruce Beresford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fox Video NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Mark Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mister Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Georges Delerue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a Nigerian clerk navigating British colonial rule ⓘ |
| notableFor | adaptation of Joyce Cary’s novel ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Sue Milliken NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistNationality | Nigerian ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | clerk ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1939 ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1991-02-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1990 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 102 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | William Boyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingContext | British colonial rule ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1920s ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Beatie Edney
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bella Enahoro NERFINISHED ⓘ Bimbo Adewunmi NERFINISHED ⓘ Bimbo Omotayo NERFINISHED ⓘ Denis Quilley NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ Femi Fatoba NERFINISHED ⓘ Jumoke Debayo NERFINISHED ⓘ Maynard Eziashi NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierce Brosnan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tinuoye Lasekan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Campion NERFINISHED ⓘ Yomi Obileye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
colonialism
ⓘ
cultural identity ⓘ power dynamics ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | interwar period ⓘ |
| title | Mister Johnson 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: Mister Johnson Description of subject: Mister Johnson is a 1990 drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, adapted from Joyce Cary’s novel about a Nigerian clerk navigating British colonial rule in the 1920s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.