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 (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John McClane canonical | 8 |
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)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
action hero
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | NYPD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Good Day to Die Hard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Die Hard 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Die Hard with a Vengeance NERFINISHED ⓘ Live Free or Die Hard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Joe Leland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Nothing Lasts Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catchphrase | Yippee-ki-yay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
John "Jack" McClane Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lucy McClane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Jeb Stuart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roderick Thorp NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven E. de Souza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | New York City Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Die Hard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| franchise | Die Hard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | action ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| homeCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCostumeElement |
bare feet in first film
ⓘ
white tank top ⓘ |
| notableEnemy |
Hans Gruber
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Simon Gruber NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Gabriel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTheme | everyman hero ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
high pain tolerance
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reluctant heroism ⓘ wisecracking personality ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| personality |
resourceful
ⓘ
sarcastic ⓘ stubborn ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bruce Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | detective ⓘ |
| settingOfAdventures |
Los Angeles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moscow NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Holly Gennaro McClane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | handgun ⓘ |
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 (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Die Hard