James Rankin
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James Rankin is a voice actor known for his role in the animated film "The Nut Job."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Rankin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9790034 — 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 Rankin Context triple: [The Nut Job, voiceCastMember, James Rankin]
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A.
Richard Rankin
Richard Rankin is a Scottish actor best known for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the television series "Outlander."
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B.
Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan is a software developer and open-source contributor known for his work on email and groupware technologies, particularly with the Kolab groupware server.
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C.
Don McKinnon
Don McKinnon is a New Zealand politician and diplomat best known for serving as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and later as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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D.
John Moir
John Moir was a standout college basketball player best known for being the inaugural recipient of the NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player award.
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E.
Donald Neil Johnston
Donald Neil Johnston, better known as Neil Johnston, was an American Hall of Fame professional basketball center who starred for the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1950s.
- 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 Rankin Target entity description: James Rankin is a voice actor known for his role in the animated film "The Nut Job."
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A.
Richard Rankin
Richard Rankin is a Scottish actor best known for playing Roger Wakefield MacKenzie in the television series "Outlander."
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B.
Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan is a software developer and open-source contributor known for his work on email and groupware technologies, particularly with the Kolab groupware server.
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C.
Don McKinnon
Don McKinnon is a New Zealand politician and diplomat best known for serving as Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand and later as Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.
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D.
John Moir
John Moir was a standout college basketball player best known for being the inaugural recipient of the NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player award.
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E.
Donald Neil Johnston
Donald Neil Johnston, better known as Neil Johnston, was an American Hall of Fame professional basketball center who starred for the Philadelphia Warriors in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film
ⓘ
person ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
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South Korea ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | animated comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor | voice role in the animated film "The Nut Job" ⓘ |
| occupation | voice actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | "The Nut Job" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Rankin Description of subject: James Rankin is a voice actor known for his role in the animated film "The Nut Job."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.