James Marshall
E452218
James Marshall is an American actor best known for his roles in the film "A Few Good Men" and the television series "Twin Peaks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Marshall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4559260 — 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 Marshall Context triple: [A Few Good Men, portrayedBy, James Marshall]
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A.
James W. Marshall
James W. Marshall was the American carpenter whose 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California triggered the California Gold Rush.
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B.
Andrew Smith Hallidie
Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
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C.
George C. Yount
George C. Yount was an early 19th-century American pioneer and settler in California’s Napa Valley, recognized as the first permanent Euro-American resident there and a significant figure in the region’s development.
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D.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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E.
John Meares
John Meares was an 18th-century British naval officer and fur trader known for his explorations of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
- 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 Marshall Target entity description: James Marshall is an American actor best known for his roles in the film "A Few Good Men" and the television series "Twin Peaks."
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A.
James W. Marshall
James W. Marshall was the American carpenter whose 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in California triggered the California Gold Rush.
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B.
Andrew Smith Hallidie
Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
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C.
George C. Yount
George C. Yount was an early 19th-century American pioneer and settler in California’s Napa Valley, recognized as the first permanent Euro-American resident there and a significant figure in the region’s development.
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D.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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E.
John Meares
John Meares was an 18th-century British naval officer and fur trader known for his explorations of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| castMemberOf |
A Few Good Men
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Twin Peaks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | Twin Peaks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
role in A Few Good Men
ⓘ
role in Twin Peaks ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| name | James Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Few Good Men
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Twin Peaks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| portrayed | James Hurley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Renée Griffin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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 Marshall Description of subject: James Marshall is an American actor best known for his roles in the film "A Few Good Men" and the television series "Twin Peaks."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.