James Broderick
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James Broderick was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions such as the crime drama "Dog Day Afternoon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Broderick canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2245454 — 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 Broderick Context triple: [Dog Day Afternoon, starring, James Broderick]
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A.
Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
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B.
John Ehle
John Ehle was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his historical fiction set in the Appalachian region of North Carolina.
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C.
Noah Wyle
Noah Wyle is an American actor best known for his role as Dr. John Carter on the medical drama "ER" and for leading roles in various science fiction and adventure television series and films.
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D.
David Strathairn
David Strathairn is an American character actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in works like "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Nomadland."
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E.
George Norton
George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
- 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 Broderick Target entity description: James Broderick was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions such as the crime drama "Dog Day Afternoon."
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A.
Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen is an American actor known for his numerous film and television roles, including playing Thomas Wayne in the 2019 film "Joker."
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B.
John Ehle
John Ehle was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his historical fiction set in the Appalachian region of North Carolina.
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C.
Noah Wyle
Noah Wyle is an American actor best known for his role as Dr. John Carter on the medical drama "ER" and for leading roles in various science fiction and adventure television series and films.
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D.
David Strathairn
David Strathairn is an American character actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in works like "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Nomadland."
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E.
George Norton
George Norton was a British colonial-era lawyer and educator best known for establishing Presidency College in Madras, one of India’s earliest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| child | Matthew Broderick ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1927-03-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-11-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
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surface form:
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
University of New Hampshire ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Broderick ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | James Broderick self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alice's Restaurant
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As the World Turns ⓘ Dog Day Afternoon ⓘ Family ⓘ The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Charlestown, New Hampshire
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surface form:
Charlestown, New Hampshire, United States of America
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| placeOfDeath |
New Haven, Connecticut
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surface form:
New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Patricia Broderick ⓘ |
| workedIn |
film
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television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
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 Broderick Description of subject: James Broderick was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions such as the crime drama "Dog Day Afternoon."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.