John Hillerman
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John Hillerman was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the refined and often irritable Jonathan Higgins on the television series "Magnum, P.I."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Hillerman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13481495 — 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 Hillerman Context triple: [Lucky Lady, hasCastMember, John Hillerman]
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A.
Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman was an American author best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, which vividly depict Native American culture and the Southwestern United States.
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B.
Guy S. Gardner
Guy S. Gardner is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who flew as a pilot on two Space Shuttle missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
J. Peter Robinson
J. Peter Robinson is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist known for his film and television scores as well as his work in rock and jazz fusion.
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D.
Raymond Gardner
Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
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E.
James Sallis
James Sallis is an American crime and science fiction writer best known for his neo-noir novel "Drive," which was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name.
- 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 Hillerman Target entity description: John Hillerman was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the refined and often irritable Jonathan Higgins on the television series "Magnum, P.I."
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A.
Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman was an American author best known for his mystery novels featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, which vividly depict Native American culture and the Southwestern United States.
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B.
Guy S. Gardner
Guy S. Gardner is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force colonel who flew as a pilot on two Space Shuttle missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
J. Peter Robinson
J. Peter Robinson is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist known for his film and television scores as well as his work in rock and jazz fusion.
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D.
Raymond Gardner
Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
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E.
James Sallis
James Sallis is an American crime and science fiction writer best known for his neo-noir novel "Drive," which was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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human ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Blazing Saddles
NERFINISHED
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Chinatown NERFINISHED ⓘ Clue NERFINISHED ⓘ One Day at a Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Paper Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Last Picture Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
NERFINISHED
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | John Benedict Hillerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Michael’s Catholic Cemetery, Denison, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiovascular disease ⓘ |
| conflict | Korean War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-12-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-11-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
film
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television ⓘ |
| knownFor | portrayal of Jonathan Higgins on Magnum, P.I. ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | John Hillerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Magnum, P.I. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Denison, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Houston, Texas, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Los Angeles ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| role | Jonathan Quayle Higgins III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | never married ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1957–1999 ⓘ |
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 Hillerman Description of subject: John Hillerman was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the refined and often irritable Jonathan Higgins on the television series "Magnum, P.I."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.