James Waterston
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James Waterston is an American actor best known for his role in the film "Dead Poets Society" and as the son of acclaimed actor Sam Waterston.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Waterston canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3197236 — 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 Waterston Context triple: [Dead Poets Society, starring, James Waterston]
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A.
Scott Arfield
Scott Arfield is a professional footballer, best known as a midfielder who represented the Canadian national team after previously playing for Scotland at youth level and having a long club career in Scotland and England.
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B.
John Ashton
John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
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C.
Ian Kirkpatrick
Ian Kirkpatrick is a Grammy-nominated American record producer and songwriter best known for crafting pop hits for artists like Dua Lipa, Selena Gomez, and Jason Derulo.
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D.
Robert Watts
Robert Watts is a British film producer best known for his work on major films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and entries in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.
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E.
Richard Marden
Richard Marden was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including adaptations of classic literature.
- 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 Waterston Target entity description: James Waterston is an American actor best known for his role in the film "Dead Poets Society" and as the son of acclaimed actor Sam Waterston.
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A.
Scott Arfield
Scott Arfield is a professional footballer, best known as a midfielder who represented the Canadian national team after previously playing for Scotland at youth level and having a long club career in Scotland and England.
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B.
John Ashton
John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
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C.
Ian Kirkpatrick
Ian Kirkpatrick is a Grammy-nominated American record producer and songwriter best known for crafting pop hits for artists like Dua Lipa, Selena Gomez, and Jason Derulo.
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D.
Robert Watts
Robert Watts is a British film producer best known for his work on major films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit and entries in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.
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E.
Richard Marden
Richard Marden was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including adaptations of classic literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn | Dead Poets Society ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Waterston ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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performing arts ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasFather | Sam Waterston ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasPartInTheCreativeWork | American cinema ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | role in Dead Poets Society ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | James Waterston self-link ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Waterston family ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dead Poets Society ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| parent | Sam Waterston ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| relative | Sam Waterston ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Waterston Description of subject: James Waterston is an American actor best known for his role in the film "Dead Poets Society" and as the son of acclaimed actor Sam Waterston.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.