Jim Preston
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Jim Preston is the main protagonist of the science fiction film "Passengers," a mechanical engineer who awakens early from hibernation on a starship and faces life-altering moral and survival dilemmas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Preston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6126390 — 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 Preston Context triple: [Passengers, leadCharacter, Jim Preston]
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A.
Mike McNeil
Mike McNeil is a software developer best known as the creator of the Sails.js Node.js web framework.
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B.
Jim Reardon
Jim Reardon is an American animation writer and director best known for his work on The Simpsons and for co-writing the screenplay for Disney’s Zootopia.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Jeff Gillooly
Jeff Gillooly is best known as the ex-husband of figure skater Tonya Harding and a central figure in the 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan.
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E.
Tony Puryear
Tony Puryear is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1996 action film "Eraser" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- 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 Preston Target entity description: Jim Preston is the main protagonist of the science fiction film "Passengers," a mechanical engineer who awakens early from hibernation on a starship and faces life-altering moral and survival dilemmas.
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A.
Mike McNeil
Mike McNeil is a software developer best known as the creator of the Sails.js Node.js web framework.
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B.
Jim Reardon
Jim Reardon is an American animation writer and director best known for his work on The Simpsons and for co-writing the screenplay for Disney’s Zootopia.
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C.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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D.
Jeff Gillooly
Jeff Gillooly is best known as the ex-husband of figure skater Tonya Harding and a central figure in the 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan.
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E.
Tony Puryear
Tony Puryear is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1996 action film "Eraser" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Passengers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Homestead colony program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awakenedFrom | hibernation ⓘ |
| awakens | 90 years too early ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jon Spaihts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directedBy | Morten Tyldum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethicalConflict | decision to wake another passenger ⓘ |
| experiences | extreme isolation ⓘ |
| faces |
moral dilemmas
ⓘ
survival dilemmas ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | science fiction ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Passengers (2016 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Arthur the android bartender
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aurora Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
consequences of moral choices
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loneliness in deep space ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| occupation | mechanical engineer ⓘ |
| passengerStatus | paying passenger ⓘ |
| placedIn | hibernation pod ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Chris Pratt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryConflict | being stranded awake alone on a starship ⓘ |
| repairs | starship Avalon systems ⓘ |
| residenceDuringStory | starship Avalon concourse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| risked | his life to save the ship ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of the film Passengers ⓘ |
| romanticInterest | Aurora Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfEvents | interstellar starship Avalon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipCompany | Homestead Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipDestination | Homestead II colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shipMalfunction | pod malfunction causes early awakening ⓘ |
| travelsOn | starship Avalon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesSkills | mechanical engineering ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 2016 ⓘ |
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 Preston Description of subject: Jim Preston is the main protagonist of the science fiction film "Passengers," a mechanical engineer who awakens early from hibernation on a starship and faces life-altering moral and survival dilemmas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.