John McClane
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John McClane is the tough, wisecracking New York cop and everyman action hero famously portrayed by Bruce Willis in the Die Hard film series.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John McClane canonical | 27 |
| John McClane Jr. | 3 |
| Jack McClane | 2 |
| McClane | 2 |
| John "Jack" McClane Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4356065 — 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 McClane Context triple: [Die Hard, character, John McClane]
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A.
John McClain
John McClain was a screenwriter active in classic Hollywood cinema, known for his work on mid-20th-century American films.
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B.
John McClain
John McClain is a music industry executive and record producer best known as a co-founder of Interscope Records and for managing and working with major artists.
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C.
William Cage
William Cage is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow," a military public relations officer who becomes caught in a time loop while fighting an alien invasion.
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D.
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan is a fictional tough, rule-bending San Francisco police inspector famously portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" film series.
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E.
David Starsky
David Starsky is a fictional, streetwise and energetic undercover detective from the 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch," known for his close partnership with Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and their iconic red Ford Gran Torino.
- 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 McClane Target entity description: John McClane is the tough, wisecracking New York cop and everyman action hero famously portrayed by Bruce Willis in the Die Hard film series.
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A.
John McClain
John McClain was a screenwriter active in classic Hollywood cinema, known for his work on mid-20th-century American films.
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B.
John McClain
John McClain is a music industry executive and record producer best known as a co-founder of Interscope Records and for managing and working with major artists.
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C.
William Cage
William Cage is the protagonist of the science fiction film "Edge of Tomorrow," a military public relations officer who becomes caught in a time loop while fighting an alien invasion.
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D.
Harry Callahan
Harry Callahan is a fictional tough, rule-bending San Francisco police inspector famously portrayed by Clint Eastwood in the "Dirty Harry" film series.
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E.
David Starsky
David Starsky is a fictional, streetwise and energetic undercover detective from the 1970s television series "Starsky & Hutch," known for his close partnership with Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson and their iconic red Ford Gran Torino.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 McClane Description of subject: John McClane is the tough, wisecracking New York cop and everyman action hero famously portrayed by Bruce Willis in the Die Hard film series.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Die Hard (1988 film)
linked to: John McClane
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linked to: John McClane
linked to: John McClane
linked to: John McClane
subject linked to:
Barnes in Die Hard 2
subject linked to:
Barnes in Die Hard 2
subject linked to:
Viktor Cherevin in A Good Day to Die Hard
subject linked to:
Viktor Cherevin in A Good Day to Die Hard
linked to: John McClane