James Lingk
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James Lingk is a timid, easily manipulated client in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross," whose wavering real estate purchase becomes central to the story’s moral and legal conflicts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Lingk canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6889515 — 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 Lingk Context triple: [Glengarry Glen Ross, character, James Lingk]
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A.
William Kong
William Kong is a prominent Hong Kong film producer best known internationally for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
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B.
Winston Chao
Winston Chao is a Taiwanese actor best known internationally for his leading role in Ang Lee’s film "The Wedding Banquet" and for portraying historical figure Sun Yat-sen in multiple Chinese-language productions.
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C.
James Hiroyuki Liao
James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in series like Prison Break and Barry.
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D.
Cecil Chao
Cecil Chao is a Hong Kong billionaire property developer best known internationally for offering large monetary rewards to any man who could successfully marry his lesbian daughter.
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E.
Eugene Lee
Eugene Lee was an acclaimed American theatrical set designer best known for his innovative, long-running work on Broadway productions and on "Saturday Night Live."
- 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 Lingk Target entity description: James Lingk is a timid, easily manipulated client in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross," whose wavering real estate purchase becomes central to the story’s moral and legal conflicts.
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A.
William Kong
William Kong is a prominent Hong Kong film producer best known internationally for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
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B.
Winston Chao
Winston Chao is a Taiwanese actor best known internationally for his leading role in Ang Lee’s film "The Wedding Banquet" and for portraying historical figure Sun Yat-sen in multiple Chinese-language productions.
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C.
James Hiroyuki Liao
James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in series like Prison Break and Barry.
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D.
Cecil Chao
Cecil Chao is a Hong Kong billionaire property developer best known internationally for offering large monetary rewards to any man who could successfully marry his lesbian daughter.
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E.
Eugene Lee
Eugene Lee was an acclaimed American theatrical set designer best known for his innovative, long-running work on Broadway productions and on "Saturday Night Live."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Glengarry Glen Ross (1992 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Glengarry Glen Ross
NERFINISHED
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Glengarry Glen Ross (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
easily manipulated
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timid ⓘ |
| conflictType | attempts to cancel real estate deal ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Ricky Roma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | David Mamet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | David Mamet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Glengarry Glen Ross (1983 play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext |
crime drama
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drama ⓘ |
| medium |
feature film
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stage play ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
exposes unethical behavior of salesmen
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victim of high-pressure sales tactics ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| occupation | client ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithRickyRoma | client of Ricky Roma ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Ricky Roma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
central to legal conflicts in Glengarry Glen Ross
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central to moral conflicts in Glengarry Glen Ross ⓘ purchaser of real estate property ⓘ real estate client ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
business ethics
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capitalism ⓘ manipulation ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ |
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 Lingk Description of subject: James Lingk is a timid, easily manipulated client in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross," whose wavering real estate purchase becomes central to the story’s moral and legal conflicts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.