Jim Nightshade
E472938
Jim Nightshade is a dark-haired, impulsive, and thrill-seeking boy whose fascination with danger contrasts with his friend Will’s caution in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Nightshade canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4834012 — 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: Jim Nightshade Context triple: [Something Wicked This Way Comes, protagonist, Jim Nightshade]
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A.
Jesse Vint
Jesse Vint is an American actor best known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s science fiction and exploitation films, including the cult classic "Silent Running."
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B.
Mancy Carr
Mancy Carr was a jazz musician known for performing on the classic Louis Armstrong recording "West End Blues."
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C.
Julian Mandrake
Julian Mandrake is a rock guitarist best known for his work with the alternative rock band Blue October and other Austin-based music projects.
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D.
Jack Firebrace
Jack Firebrace is a compassionate, working-class tunneller in Sebastian Faulks’s World War I novel "Birdsong," whose experiences highlight the human cost of the conflict.
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E.
Garth
Garth is a novel by American writer Julian Hawthorne, known as one of his more prominent works of fiction in the late 19th century.
- 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: Jim Nightshade Target entity description: Jim Nightshade is a dark-haired, impulsive, and thrill-seeking boy whose fascination with danger contrasts with his friend Will’s caution in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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A.
Jesse Vint
Jesse Vint is an American actor best known for his roles in 1970s and 1980s science fiction and exploitation films, including the cult classic "Silent Running."
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B.
Mancy Carr
Mancy Carr was a jazz musician known for performing on the classic Louis Armstrong recording "West End Blues."
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C.
Julian Mandrake
Julian Mandrake is a rock guitarist best known for his work with the alternative rock band Blue October and other Austin-based music projects.
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D.
Jack Firebrace
Jack Firebrace is a compassionate, working-class tunneller in Sebastian Faulks’s World War I novel "Birdsong," whose experiences highlight the human cost of the conflict.
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E.
Garth
Garth is a novel by American writer Julian Hawthorne, known as one of his more prominent works of fiction in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | boy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Something Wicked This Way Comes ⓘ |
| appearsInAdaptationOf |
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Something Wicked This Way Comes
|
| appearsInGenre | dark fantasy ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorSettingCycle | Green Town series ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | Will Halloway ⓘ |
| creator | Ray Bradbury ⓘ |
| fullName | Jim Nightshade ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hairColor | dark ⓘ |
| hasFirstName | Jim ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Will Halloway ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Nightshade ⓘ |
| isFictionalResidentOf | Illinois ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
fascinated by danger
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impulsive ⓘ thrill-seeking ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfWork | 1962 ⓘ |
| residesIn | Green Town ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
coming of age
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duality of human nature ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
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: Jim Nightshade Description of subject: Jim Nightshade is a dark-haired, impulsive, and thrill-seeking boy whose fascination with danger contrasts with his friend Will’s caution in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.