John Meehan
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John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Meehan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3545775 — 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 Meehan Context triple: [Eric Bana, portrayed, John Meehan]
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A.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Matthew J. Driscoll
Matthew J. Driscoll is an American politician and public official from New York who has served as mayor of Syracuse and later held statewide leadership roles in transportation and infrastructure.
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C.
Matthew F. Leonetti
Matthew F. Leonetti is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films across action, comedy, and science fiction genres.
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D.
Ron Feemster
Ron Feemster is a music producer known for his work on the album "Afrodisiac."
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E.
Benjamin Barron
Benjamin Barron was the husband of Elizabeth Parris, who was historically associated with the Salem witch trials.
- 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 Meehan Target entity description: John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
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A.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Matthew J. Driscoll
Matthew J. Driscoll is an American politician and public official from New York who has served as mayor of Syracuse and later held statewide leadership roles in transportation and infrastructure.
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C.
Matthew F. Leonetti
Matthew F. Leonetti is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films across action, comedy, and science fiction genres.
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D.
Ron Feemster
Ron Feemster is a music producer known for his work on the album "Afrodisiac."
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E.
Benjamin Barron
Benjamin Barron was the husband of Elizabeth Parris, who was historically associated with the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conman
ⓘ
human ⓘ serial predator ⓘ stalker ⓘ |
| attacked | Terra Newell ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stab wounds ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
drug-related offenses
ⓘ
menacing ⓘ theft ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016 ⓘ |
| diedInHospital | yes ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfCrime |
identity deception
ⓘ
intimidation ⓘ relationship fraud ⓘ |
| hadHistoryOf | restraining orders against him ⓘ |
| hadRelationshipWith | Debra Newell ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaArticle | yes ⓘ |
| inspired |
TV series Dirty John
ⓘ
linked to:
Dirty John
podcast Dirty John ⓘ |
| knownAs | Dirty John ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coercive control
ⓘ
emotional abuse ⓘ financial fraud ⓘ romance scams ⓘ stalking women ⓘ |
| mediaPortrayal | central antagonist in Dirty John ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Dirty John case
ⓘ
linked to:
Dirty John
|
| occupation | nurse anesthetist ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Ohio ⓘ other U.S. states ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Orange County, California ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Eric Bana ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
TV series Dirty John
ⓘ
linked to:
Dirty John
articles in Los Angeles Times ⓘ podcast Dirty John ⓘ
linked to:
Dirty John
|
| usedAlias |
Dirty John
ⓘ
Filthy John ⓘ
linked to:
Dirty John
|
| victimized |
Debra Newell
ⓘ
Terra Newell ⓘ |
| wasStoppedBy | Terra Newell ⓘ |
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 Meehan Description of subject: John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dirty John