James Coburn
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James Coburn was an American actor known for his cool, tough-guy persona in films such as "The Magnificent Seven" and "Our Man Flint," and for winning an Academy Award for his supporting role in "Affliction."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Coburn canonical | 24 |
| James H. Coburn IV | 1 |
| James Harrison Coburn III | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1794994 — 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 Coburn Context triple: [Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, James Coburn]
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A.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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B.
Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott is an American actor known for his distinctive deep voice, rugged Western persona, and roles in films such as "Tombstone," "The Big Lebowski," and "A Star Is Born."
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C.
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern is an acclaimed American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as "Nebraska," "Coming Home," and numerous collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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D.
Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton was an American character actor and musician known for his distinctive, world-weary presence in films such as "Paris, Texas," "Repo Man," and "Alien."
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E.
Tom Willis
Tom Willis is a prominent character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as George and Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in an interracial marriage that often highlights social and racial tensions with humor.
- 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 Coburn Target entity description: James Coburn was an American actor known for his cool, tough-guy persona in films such as "The Magnificent Seven" and "Our Man Flint," and for winning an Academy Award for his supporting role in "Affliction."
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A.
David Wayne
David Wayne was an American character actor known for his versatile performances in film, television, and theater from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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B.
Sam Elliott
Sam Elliott is an American actor known for his distinctive deep voice, rugged Western persona, and roles in films such as "Tombstone," "The Big Lebowski," and "A Star Is Born."
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C.
Bruce Dern
Bruce Dern is an acclaimed American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in films such as "Nebraska," "Coming Home," and numerous collaborations with directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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D.
Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton was an American character actor and musician known for his distinctive, world-weary presence in films such as "Paris, Texas," "Repo Man," and "Alien."
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E.
Tom Willis
Tom Willis is a prominent character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as George and Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in an interracial marriage that often highlights social and racial tensions with humor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 Coburn Description of subject: James Coburn was an American actor known for his cool, tough-guy persona in films such as "The Magnificent Seven" and "Our Man Flint," and for winning an Academy Award for his supporting role in "Affliction."
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Magnificent Seven (1960 film)
this entity surface form:
James Harrison Coburn III
this entity surface form:
James H. Coburn IV
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, United States
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hasBurial
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James Coburn
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subject surface form:
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery