John Glen
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John Glen is a British film director best known for directing five James Bond movies during the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Glen canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859893 — 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 Glen Context triple: [A View to a Kill, director, John Glen]
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A.
Gerald Wilkinson
Gerald Wilkinson was a British naturalist, illustrator, and author known for his influential books on trees, woodlands, and the English countryside.
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B.
John Bunn
John Bunn was an American basketball coach and administrator known for his influential roles in college basketball and contributions to the sport’s development.
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C.
Douglas Guilfoyle
Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
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D.
Christopher Fairbank
Christopher Fairbank is a British character actor known for his distinctive features and roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and various Shakespearean adaptations.
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E.
Bill Gorton
Bill Gorton is a witty, hard-drinking American war veteran and journalist who serves as Jake Barnes’s close friend and comic foil in Ernest Hemingway’s novel "The Sun Also Rises."
- 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 Glen Target entity description: John Glen is a British film director best known for directing five James Bond movies during the 1980s.
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A.
Gerald Wilkinson
Gerald Wilkinson was a British naturalist, illustrator, and author known for his influential books on trees, woodlands, and the English countryside.
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B.
John Bunn
John Bunn was an American basketball coach and administrator known for his influential roles in college basketball and contributions to the sport’s development.
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C.
Douglas Guilfoyle
Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
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D.
Christopher Fairbank
Christopher Fairbank is a British character actor known for his distinctive features and roles in film and television, including appearances in productions such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and various Shakespearean adaptations.
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E.
Bill Gorton
Bill Gorton is a witty, hard-drinking American war veteran and journalist who serves as Jake Barnes’s close friend and comic foil in Ernest Hemingway’s novel "The Sun Also Rises."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Glen Description of subject: John Glen is a British film director best known for directing five James Bond movies during the 1980s.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Peter Davies
subject linked to:
Octopussy (film)
subject linked to:
For Your Eyes Only (film)
subject linked to:
James Bond film For Your Eyes Only
subject linked to:
James Bond film For Your Eyes Only
subject linked to:
James Bond film Octopussy