James Duval
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James Duval is an American actor best known for his roles in cult films of the 1990s and 2000s, including "Donnie Darko," "Independence Day," and "Go."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Duval canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13481140 — 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 Duval Context triple: [Donnie Darko, starring, James Duval]
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A.
Josh Peck
Josh Peck is an American actor and comedian best known for his role on the Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh" and his subsequent work in film, television, and online media.
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B.
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor known for his breakout roles in late-1990s and early-2000s films such as "The Faculty," "Pearl Harbor," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as later work in projects like the series "Penny Dreadful."
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C.
Justin Hartley
Justin Hartley is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "This Is Us," "Smallville," and "The Young and the Restless."
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D.
Josh Lucas
Josh Lucas is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "Sweet Home Alabama," "A Beautiful Mind," and "Glory Road," as well as numerous television appearances.
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E.
Brendan Hines
Brendan Hines is an American actor and singer-songwriter best known for his television roles in series such as "Lie to Me," "Scandal," and "The Tick."
- 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 Duval Target entity description: James Duval is an American actor best known for his roles in cult films of the 1990s and 2000s, including "Donnie Darko," "Independence Day," and "Go."
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A.
Josh Peck
Josh Peck is an American actor and comedian best known for his role on the Nickelodeon series "Drake & Josh" and his subsequent work in film, television, and online media.
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B.
Josh Hartnett
Josh Hartnett is an American actor known for his breakout roles in late-1990s and early-2000s films such as "The Faculty," "Pearl Harbor," and "Black Hawk Down," as well as later work in projects like the series "Penny Dreadful."
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C.
Justin Hartley
Justin Hartley is an American actor best known for his television roles in series such as "This Is Us," "Smallville," and "The Young and the Restless."
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D.
Josh Lucas
Josh Lucas is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "Sweet Home Alabama," "A Beautiful Mind," and "Glory Road," as well as numerous television appearances.
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E.
Brendan Hines
Brendan Hines is an American actor and singer-songwriter best known for his television roles in series such as "Lie to Me," "Scandal," and "The Tick."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ |
| appearedInFilm |
Donnie Darko
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Go ⓘ Independence Day ⓘ May ⓘ Nowhere ⓘ SLC Punk! ⓘ The Doom Generation ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Gregg Araki ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Duval ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | cult film ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
independent cinema roles
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roles in cult films ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | James Duval ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Donnie Darko
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Go ⓘ Independence Day ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| playedCharacter | Frank in Donnie Darko ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Los Angeles (region)
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linked to:
Los Angeles
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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 Duval Description of subject: James Duval is an American actor best known for his roles in cult films of the 1990s and 2000s, including "Donnie Darko," "Independence Day," and "Go."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.