James Woods
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James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Woods canonical | 44 |
| James Howard Woods | 1 |
| James Woods plays Cleve | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T364646 — 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 Woods Context triple: [Jobs (2013 film), starred, James Woods]
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A.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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B.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an acclaimed American actor and producer known for films like "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction," who has also been recognized for his humanitarian and peace-promoting work.
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C.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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D.
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins was an acclaimed English actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "The Long Good Friday," "Mona Lisa," and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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E.
Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson was an acclaimed English character actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Full Monty," "In the Bedroom," and "Michael Clayton."
- 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 Woods Target entity description: James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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A.
Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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B.
Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an acclaimed American actor and producer known for films like "Wall Street" and "Fatal Attraction," who has also been recognized for his humanitarian and peace-promoting work.
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C.
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church is an American actor known for roles in the TV series "Wings" and films such as "Sideways" and "Spider-Man 3."
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D.
Bob Hoskins
Bob Hoskins was an acclaimed English actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "The Long Good Friday," "Mona Lisa," and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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E.
Tom Wilkinson
Tom Wilkinson was an acclaimed English character actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Full Monty," "In the Bedroom," and "Michael Clayton."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 Woods Description of subject: James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jobs (2013 film)
this entity surface form:
James Howard Woods
subject surface form:
Max Renn
subject surface form:
Richard Boyle (Salvador)
subject surface form:
Lester Diamond
subject surface form:
Sebastian Stark
this entity surface form:
James Woods plays Cleve
subject surface form:
Contact (1997 film)