Jim White
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Jim White is the dedicated high school coach and main protagonist in the sports drama film "McFarland, USA," who leads a team of Latino student runners to cross-country success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim White canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6150581 — 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 White Context triple: [McFarland, USA, character, Jim White]
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A.
Jim White
Jim White is an American singer-songwriter known for his atmospheric, Southern Gothic-influenced alt-country music.
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B.
Joel White
Joel White was the son of American writer E. B. White and a noted boat designer and builder associated with traditional wooden sailing craft.
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C.
Jason White
Jason White is an American punk rock guitarist best known for his work with Green Day and various side projects in the East Bay punk scene.
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D.
Jason White
Jason White is a musician and songwriter known for his work composing contemporary Christian and gospel music.
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E.
Jason White
Jason White is an American politician who serves as the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
- 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 White Target entity description: Jim White is the dedicated high school coach and main protagonist in the sports drama film "McFarland, USA," who leads a team of Latino student runners to cross-country success.
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A.
Jim White
Jim White is an American singer-songwriter known for his atmospheric, Southern Gothic-influenced alt-country music.
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B.
Joel White
Joel White was the son of American writer E. B. White and a noted boat designer and builder associated with traditional wooden sailing craft.
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C.
Jason White
Jason White is an American punk rock guitarist best known for his work with Green Day and various side projects in the East Bay punk scene.
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D.
Jason White
Jason White is a musician and songwriter known for his work composing contemporary Christian and gospel music.
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E.
Jason White
Jason White is a former Scottish international rugby union player who captained the national team and was known for his powerful tackling and leadership as a flanker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ high school coach ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | McFarland, USA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Jim White (real-life coach) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterNationality | American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
dedicated
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hardworking ⓘ supportive ⓘ |
| coaches |
Mexican-American runners
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high school students ⓘ |
| coachesAt | McFarland High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | sports drama ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | biographical sports drama film ⓘ |
| goal | lead his team to cross-country success ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 2015 ⓘ |
| leads | Latino student runners ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
cross-country coach
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teacher ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kevin Costner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | Walt Disney Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | McFarland, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportCoached | cross country running ⓘ |
| teamCoached | McFarland High School cross-country team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
community empowerment
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mentorship ⓘ overcoming adversity ⓘ |
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 White Description of subject: Jim White is the dedicated high school coach and main protagonist in the sports drama film "McFarland, USA," who leads a team of Latino student runners to cross-country success.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.