John
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John is the given name of American actor John Hodiak, known for his roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6924800 — 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: John Context triple: [John Hodiak, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John H. Hammond Jr., the influential American record producer and talent scout known for discovering and promoting numerous major jazz, blues, and rock musicians.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John F. Sattler, likely referring to him in a more informal or abbreviated context.
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C.
John
John is the given name of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer.
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D.
John
John is the given name of John Hersey, the American writer and journalist renowned for his groundbreaking reportage on the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing.
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E.
John
John is the given name of Sir John Borlase Warren, a prominent British naval officer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- 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: John Target entity description: John is the given name of American actor John Hodiak, known for his roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
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John
John is the given name of American actor John Goodman, renowned for his roles in film, television, and theater.
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John
John is the given name of the renowned American stage and film actor John Barrymore, a major star of the early 20th century.
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C.
John
John is the given name of actor John Cho, a Korean American performer known for roles in the "Harold & Kumar" films and the "Star Trek" reboot series.
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John
John is the given name of John Witherspoon, an American actor and comedian best known for his roles in the "Friday" film series and the television show "The Wayans Bros."
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John
John is the birth name of American actor and director Jackie Cooper, a prominent child star of the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | American cinema ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| citizenshipStatus | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | classic Hollywood era ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama films
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thriller films ⓘ war films ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Hodiak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature films ⓘ |
| nameInNativeLanguage | John Hodiak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notability | Hollywood actor ⓘ |
| notableFor | mid-20th-century Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableRolePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: John Description of subject: John is the given name of American actor John Hodiak, known for his roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.