James Norman Beaver Jr.
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James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor and writer best known for his role as Bobby Singer on the television series "Supernatural."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Norman Beaver Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5108432 — 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 Norman Beaver Jr. Context triple: [Jim Beaver, birthName, James Norman Beaver Jr.]
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A.
Thomas Fishburn
Thomas Fishburn was an 18th-century British shipbuilder known for constructing the vessel that later became Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
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B.
David Nelson
David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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C.
David Nelson
David Nelson is a prominent British architect and senior partner at Foster + Partners, known for leading major international architectural and urban design projects.
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D.
David Nelson
David Nelson is an American poet and performer best known as an early member of The Last Poets, a pioneering group in politically charged spoken word and proto-rap.
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E.
Edgar Bethune Ward
Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
- 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 Norman Beaver Jr. Target entity description: James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor and writer best known for his role as Bobby Singer on the television series "Supernatural."
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A.
Thomas Fishburn
Thomas Fishburn was an 18th-century British shipbuilder known for constructing the vessel that later became Captain James Cook’s HMS Endeavour.
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B.
David Nelson
David Nelson was an American actor and director best known as the elder son on the classic television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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C.
David Nelson
David Nelson is a prominent British architect and senior partner at Foster + Partners, known for leading major international architectural and urban design projects.
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D.
David Nelson
David Nelson is an American poet and performer best known as an early member of The Last Poets, a pioneering group in politically charged spoken word and proto-rap.
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E.
Edgar Bethune Ward
Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Adaptation.
NERFINISHED
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Crimson Peak NERFINISHED ⓘ Deadwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Harper’s Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Justified NERFINISHED ⓘ Magnolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Supernatural NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life of David Gale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1950-08-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Laramie, Wyoming, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Maddie Beaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Fort Worth Christian College
NERFINISHED
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Oklahoma Christian University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Beaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0064769 ⓘ |
| knownFor | role of Bobby Singer on Supernatural ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name |
James Norman Beaver Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jim Beaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Bobby Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Life’s That Way
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Supernatural NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film historian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Bobby Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Marine Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Cecily Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Life’s That Way (memoir) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | Life’s That Way ⓘ |
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 Norman Beaver Jr. Description of subject: James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor and writer best known for his role as Bobby Singer on the television series "Supernatural."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.