Jim Herd
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Jim Herd is a former television executive best known for his controversial tenure running World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Herd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6889131 — 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)
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Target entity: Jim Herd Context triple: [World Championship Wrestling, notableExecutive, Jim Herd]
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A.
Pat Buttram
Pat Buttram was an American character actor and comedian best known for his distinctive nasal voice and roles in Westerns and as Mr. Haney on the television series "Green Acres."
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B.
Don Munday
Don Munday was a Canadian mountaineer and explorer renowned for his pioneering climbs and exploration of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia.
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C.
Leon Durham
Leon Durham is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder best known for his years with the Chicago Cubs in the early 1980s.
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D.
Ian Megibben
Ian Megibben is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Finding Dory."
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E.
Doug Dillard
Doug Dillard was an influential American bluegrass banjo player and musician best known for his work with The Dillards and his role in popularizing bluegrass in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Jim Herd Target entity description: Jim Herd is a former television executive best known for his controversial tenure running World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the early 1990s.
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A.
Pat Buttram
Pat Buttram was an American character actor and comedian best known for his distinctive nasal voice and roles in Westerns and as Mr. Haney on the television series "Green Acres."
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B.
Don Munday
Don Munday was a Canadian mountaineer and explorer renowned for his pioneering climbs and exploration of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia.
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C.
Leon Durham
Leon Durham is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder best known for his years with the Chicago Cubs in the early 1980s.
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D.
Ian Megibben
Ian Megibben is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Finding Dory."
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E.
Doug Dillard
Doug Dillard was an influential American bluegrass banjo player and musician best known for his work with The Dillards and his role in popularizing bluegrass in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
professional wrestling executive ⓘ television executive ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 1990s
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late 1980s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Turner Broadcasting System
NERFINISHED
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World Championship Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional wrestling
ⓘ
television broadcasting ⓘ |
| genre | professional wrestling promotion management ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociation |
National Wrestling Alliance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ric Flair NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Turner Broadcasting NERFINISHED ⓘ World Championship Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
sports entertainment industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
controversial management of WCW in the early 1990s
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tenure as Executive Vice President of World Championship Wrestling ⓘ |
| mediaTypeWorkedIn | cable television ⓘ |
| notableEvent | departure from WCW amid controversy ⓘ |
| notableWork | management of WCW during early 1990s ⓘ |
| occupation |
television executive
ⓘ
wrestling promoter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Executive Vice President of World Championship Wrestling ⓘ |
| reputation |
controversial figure among wrestling fans
ⓘ
criticized for creative decisions in WCW ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | United States professional wrestling scene ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Herd Description of subject: Jim Herd is a former television executive best known for his controversial tenure running World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the early 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.