Jonathan Pine
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Jonathan Pine is a former British soldier turned hotel night manager who becomes an undercover operative infiltrating an international arms dealer’s network in John le Carré’s thriller "The Night Manager."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Pine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394143 — 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: Jonathan Pine Context triple: [The Night Manager, mainCharacter, Jonathan Pine]
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A.
Douglas Pike
Douglas Pike was a prominent American diplomat and scholar known for his influential analyses of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam War.
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B.
Jonathan Oldbuck
Jonathan Oldbuck is a fictional, eccentric antiquary and amateur historian who serves as the central figure in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Antiquary."
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C.
Ian J. Turpin
Ian J. Turpin is a Scottish-born businessman and financial executive best known as the husband of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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D.
Alan Snyder
Alan Snyder is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages and system design, including contributions to the development of the CLU language.
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E.
Richard Baskin
Richard Baskin is an American composer and music producer best known for his film scores and work in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Hollywood.
- 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: Jonathan Pine Target entity description: Jonathan Pine is a former British soldier turned hotel night manager who becomes an undercover operative infiltrating an international arms dealer’s network in John le Carré’s thriller "The Night Manager."
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A.
Douglas Pike
Douglas Pike was a prominent American diplomat and scholar known for his influential analyses of the Viet Cong and the Vietnam War.
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B.
Jonathan Oldbuck
Jonathan Oldbuck is a fictional, eccentric antiquary and amateur historian who serves as the central figure in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Antiquary."
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C.
Ian J. Turpin
Ian J. Turpin is a Scottish-born businessman and financial executive best known as the husband of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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D.
Alan Snyder
Alan Snyder is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages and system design, including contributions to the development of the CLU language.
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E.
Richard Baskin
Richard Baskin is an American composer and music producer best known for his film scores and work in the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in Hollywood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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protagonist ⓘ |
| allegiance | British intelligence (covert collaboration) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Night Manager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | novel The Night Manager ⓘ |
| conflict | international arms trafficking ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | John le Carré NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | novel The Night Manager ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
espionage fiction
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spy thriller ⓘ |
| hasBackstory | served as a British soldier before hotel career ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
covert operations
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intelligence gathering ⓘ military training ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
courageous
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morally conflicted ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central point-of-view character ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
double life as hotel manager and spy
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infiltrating an international arms dealer’s network ⓘ |
| occupation |
former soldier
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hotel night manager ⓘ night manager ⓘ |
| opposes | international arms dealer ⓘ |
| partOf | The Night Manager universe ⓘ |
| publicationContext | The Night Manager (1993 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
infiltrator of arms dealer network
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undercover operative ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
corruption in international arms trade
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moral ambiguity in espionage ⓘ |
| undercoverAs | hotel night manager ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cairo hotel (in the story)
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Swiss hotel (in the story) ⓘ luxury hotels ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Pine Description of subject: Jonathan Pine is a former British soldier turned hotel night manager who becomes an undercover operative infiltrating an international arms dealer’s network in John le Carré’s thriller "The Night Manager."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.