Thomas Harper
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Thomas Harper is a seasoned CIA handler and mentor who guides analyst-turned-operative Jack Ryan in the film "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Harper canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10467448 — 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: Thomas Harper Context triple: [Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, character, Thomas Harper]
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A.
Frank Johnston
Frank Johnston was a Canadian landscape painter best known as one of the original members of the Group of Seven, a pioneering modern art movement in early 20th-century Canada.
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B.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational work in programming language theory and type systems, particularly in connection with the development of Standard ML.
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C.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
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D.
Hugh McDevitt
Hugh McDevitt is an immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic control of the immune response and the role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules in disease susceptibility.
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E.
Thomas Hinton
Thomas Hinton is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various historical and contemporary figures across different fields.
- 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: Thomas Harper Target entity description: Thomas Harper is a seasoned CIA handler and mentor who guides analyst-turned-operative Jack Ryan in the film "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit."
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A.
Frank Johnston
Frank Johnston was a Canadian landscape painter best known as one of the original members of the Group of Seven, a pioneering modern art movement in early 20th-century Canada.
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B.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational work in programming language theory and type systems, particularly in connection with the development of Standard ML.
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C.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
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D.
Hugh McDevitt
Hugh McDevitt is an immunologist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic control of the immune response and the role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules in disease susceptibility.
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E.
Thomas Hinton
Thomas Hinton is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including various historical and contemporary figures across different fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Jack Ryan film series continuity ⓘ |
| countryOfAffiliation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | spy thriller ⓘ |
| guides | Jack Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAllegiance | United States government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
mentor figure
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recruiter of Jack Ryan ⓘ |
| occupation |
CIA officer
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intelligence handler ⓘ |
| partOf | Jack Ryan franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kevin Costner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLocationOfActivity |
Russia (mission setting in film)
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United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
CIA handler
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mentor to Jack Ryan ⓘ |
| universe | Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan universe (film continuity) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksFor | CIA 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: Thomas Harper Description of subject: Thomas Harper is a seasoned CIA handler and mentor who guides analyst-turned-operative Jack Ryan in the film "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.