James Cole
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James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Cole canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3658922 — 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 Cole Context triple: [12 Monkeys, character, James Cole]
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A.
Matt Kowalski
Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
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B.
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson was a 19th-century British mountaineer and Anglican clergyman known for his pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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C.
Aidan Murphy
Aidan Murphy is the Irish actor better known professionally as Aidan Gillen, recognized for roles in series like "The Wire" and "Game of Thrones."
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D.
Lyndon Rush
Lyndon Rush is a Canadian bobsledder who won Olympic bronze in the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
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E.
Kai Dugan
Kai Dugan is the son of American actress Jennifer Connelly, known primarily for his connection to his famous mother.
- 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 Cole Target entity description: James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
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A.
Matt Kowalski
Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
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B.
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson was a 19th-century British mountaineer and Anglican clergyman known for his pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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C.
Aidan Murphy
Aidan Murphy is the Irish actor better known professionally as Aidan Gillen, recognized for roles in series like "The Wire" and "Game of Thrones."
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D.
Lyndon Rush
Lyndon Rush is a Canadian bobsledder who won Olympic bronze in the four-man event at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
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E.
Kai Dugan
Kai Dugan is the son of American actress Jennifer Connelly, known primarily for his connection to his famous mother.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
convict
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ time traveler ⓘ |
| ability | time travel ⓘ |
| affiliation | future scientists overseeing time travel program ⓘ |
| allyOf |
Cassandra Railly
ⓘ
Jeffrey Goines ⓘ
surface form:
Jeffrey Goines (at times)
Kathryn Railly ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
12 Monkeys
ⓘ
surface form:
12 Monkeys (1995 film)
12 Monkeys ⓘ
surface form:
12 Monkeys (TV series)
|
| associatedWith |
global pandemic
ⓘ
post-apocalyptic future ⓘ time travel technology ⓘ |
| basedIn | future timeline ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Chris Marker
ⓘ
Terry Gilliam ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
12 Monkeys
ⓘ
surface form:
Army of the Twelve Monkeys
|
| fictionalUniverse |
12 Monkeys
ⓘ
surface form:
12 Monkeys franchise
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| goal |
discover the origin of a deadly virus
ⓘ
prevent a devastating global plague ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | the character in La Jetée ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | prisoner in a future penal system ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | time loop ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main protagonist ⓘ |
| notableEvent | witnesses his own death as a child (film continuity) ⓘ |
| occupation |
prisoner
ⓘ
time traveler ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Aaron Stanford
ⓘ
Bruce Willis ⓘ |
| sentFrom | future underground facility ⓘ |
| sentTo | past to gather information about the virus ⓘ |
| setting |
1990s
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
post-apocalyptic 2030s ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
12 Monkeys (TV series) plot
ⓘ
12 Monkeys (film) plot ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
causality and time loops
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fate versus free will ⓘ memory and perception ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Dr. Cassandra Railly
ⓘ
Dr. Kathryn Railly ⓘ |
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 Cole Description of subject: James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dr. Peters