John Moss
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John Moss is a tough, streetwise New York City detective who serves as one of the main protagonists in the action-comedy film "The Hard Way."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Moss canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839708 — 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 Moss Context triple: [The Hard Way, character, John Moss]
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A.
Johnny Moss
Johnny Moss was an American professional poker player widely regarded as one of the greatest early champions in World Series of Poker history.
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B.
William Moss
William Moss is known primarily as the husband of American dancer and actress Ann Miller.
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C.
Frank Mitchell
Frank Mitchell is a central father figure on the 1990s sitcom "Moesha," known for his strict but caring parenting style and frequent clashes with his teenage daughter.
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D.
Frank Mitchell
Frank Mitchell is a fictional character from the British soap opera "EastEnders," known as the husband of Dee Mitchell and a member of the Mitchell family.
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E.
John Fagan
John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
- 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 Moss Target entity description: John Moss is a tough, streetwise New York City detective who serves as one of the main protagonists in the action-comedy film "The Hard Way."
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A.
Johnny Moss
Johnny Moss was an American professional poker player widely regarded as one of the greatest early champions in World Series of Poker history.
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B.
William Moss
William Moss is known primarily as the husband of American dancer and actress Ann Miller.
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C.
Frank Mitchell
Frank Mitchell is a central father figure on the 1990s sitcom "Moesha," known for his strict but caring parenting style and frequent clashes with his teenage daughter.
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D.
Frank Mitchell
Frank Mitchell is a fictional character from the British soap opera "EastEnders," known as the husband of Dee Mitchell and a member of the Mitchell family.
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E.
John Fagan
John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| antagonistIn | The Party Crasher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Hard Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
action film
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Daniel Pyne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lem Dobbs NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Kozoll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | The Hard Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | New York City Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Hard Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWorkAppearedIn | John Badham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| genre | action comedy character ⓘ |
| hasEnemy | The Party Crasher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementRank | detective ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
mentor figure to Nick Lang
ⓘ
reluctant partner ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| partnerInFilm | Nick Lang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
streetwise
ⓘ
tough ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInFilm | main protagonist ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| worksWith | Nick Lang 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: John Moss Description of subject: John Moss is a tough, streetwise New York City detective who serves as one of the main protagonists in the action-comedy film "The Hard Way."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.