Dr. James Harvey
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Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. James Harvey canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3785019 — 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: Dr. James Harvey Context triple: [Casper (1995 film), mainCharacter, Dr. James Harvey]
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A.
Dr. John Prentice
Dr. John Prentice is the accomplished, idealistic Black physician whose interracial relationship with a white woman drives the central social and moral conflict in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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B.
Dr. Robert Hartley
Dr. Robert Hartley is the mild-mannered Chicago psychologist and central comedic figure portrayed by Bob Newhart on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
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C.
Richard Warren
Richard Warren was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who is best known as one of the passengers on the Mayflower and an ancestor of many notable Americans.
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D.
Dr. William Block
Dr. William Block is a character in the 2007 horror-action film "Planet Terror," portrayed as a morally corrupt physician entangled in the outbreak of a deadly infection.
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E.
Dr. Alfred Jones
Dr. Alfred Jones is a reserved British fisheries scientist whose unlikely involvement in a visionary project to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemeni desert drives the plot of the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
- 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: Dr. James Harvey Target entity description: Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
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A.
Dr. John Prentice
Dr. John Prentice is the accomplished, idealistic Black physician whose interracial relationship with a white woman drives the central social and moral conflict in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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B.
Dr. Robert Hartley
Dr. Robert Hartley is the mild-mannered Chicago psychologist and central comedic figure portrayed by Bob Newhart on the classic sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show."
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C.
Richard Warren
Richard Warren was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who is best known as one of the passengers on the Mayflower and an ancestor of many notable Americans.
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D.
Dr. William Block
Dr. William Block is a character in the 2007 horror-action film "Planet Terror," portrayed as a morally corrupt physician entangled in the outbreak of a deadly infection.
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E.
Dr. Alfred Jones
Dr. Alfred Jones is a reserved British fisheries scientist whose unlikely involvement in a visionary project to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemeni desert drives the plot of the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Harvey family ⓘ |
| appearsAlongside |
Christina Ricci as Kat Harvey
ⓘ
linked to:
Christina Ricci
Malachi Pearson as the voice of Casper ⓘ
linked to:
Casper the Friendly Ghost
|
| appearsIn |
Casper
ⓘ
Casper (1995 film) ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
family film
ⓘ
fantasy film ⓘ supernatural comedy ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Amelia Harvey
ⓘ
Casper McFadden ⓘ Kat Harvey ⓘ The Ghostly Trio ⓘ |
| basedOn | original character for the 1995 film Casper ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
bumbling
ⓘ
caring ⓘ well-meaning ⓘ |
| child | Kat Harvey ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | screenwriters of Casper (1995 film) ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed ⓘ |
| familyName | Harvey ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Casper franchise ⓘ |
| fieldOfExpertise |
grief counseling
ⓘ
parapsychology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| goal |
communicate with his deceased wife Amelia Harvey
ⓘ
help ghosts resolve their unfinished business ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Doctor ⓘ |
| introducedIn | 1995 ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widowed ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
father figure
ⓘ
supporting protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
ghost therapist
ⓘ
paranormal therapist ⓘ |
| personality |
absent-minded
ⓘ
optimistic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bill Pullman ⓘ |
| primaryMedium | live-action film ⓘ |
| residence | Friendship, Maine ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| spouse | Amelia Harvey ⓘ |
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: Dr. James Harvey Description of subject: Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.