Jim Davis
E226048
Jim Davis was an American actor best known for playing family patriarch Jock Ewing on the television series "Dallas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Davis canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008699 — 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: Jim Davis Context triple: [Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Jim Davis]
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A.
Dan Dierdorf
Dan Dierdorf is a Hall of Fame American football offensive lineman and longtime broadcaster best known for his standout career with the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.
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B.
Dick Howser
Dick Howser was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to their first World Series championship in 1985.
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C.
David Nelson
David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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D.
Fred Karger
Fred Karger was an American musician and vocal coach best known for his work at major Hollywood studios and his long, on-and-off marriage to actress Jane Wyman.
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E.
Frank Carroll
Frank Carroll is a renowned American figure skating coach best known for guiding multiple world and Olympic medalists, including Michelle Kwan.
- 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: Jim Davis Target entity description: Jim Davis was an American actor best known for playing family patriarch Jock Ewing on the television series "Dallas."
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A.
Dan Dierdorf
Dan Dierdorf is a Hall of Fame American football offensive lineman and longtime broadcaster best known for his standout career with the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.
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B.
Dick Howser
Dick Howser was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for leading the Kansas City Royals to their first World Series championship in 1985.
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C.
David Nelson
David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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D.
Fred Karger
Fred Karger was an American musician and vocal coach best known for his work at major Hollywood studios and his long, on-and-off marriage to actress Jane Wyman.
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E.
Frank Carroll
Frank Carroll is a renowned American figure skating coach best known for guiding multiple world and Olympic medalists, including Michelle Kwan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Jim Davis Description of subject: Jim Davis was an American actor best known for playing family patriarch Jock Ewing on the television series "Dallas."
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery, Chatsworth, California, United States
subject linked to:
The Restless Breed (1957 film)