James Doohan
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James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Doohan canonical | 26 |
| James Doohan as Montgomery Scott | 1 |
| James Montgomery Doohan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5143600 — 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 Doohan Context triple: [Star Trek: The Motion Picture, starring, James Doohan]
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A.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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B.
William Shatner
William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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C.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
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D.
James McDivitt
James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
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E.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
- 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 Doohan Target entity description: James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
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A.
Walter Koenig
Walter Koenig is an American actor best known for playing Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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B.
William Shatner
William Shatner is a Canadian actor best known for his iconic role as Captain James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek television series and films.
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C.
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Nimoy was an American actor, director, and author best known for originating the iconic role of Spock in the Star Trek franchise.
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D.
James McDivitt
James McDivitt was a NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew on the Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 missions, playing a key role in the early American space program.
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E.
David Hedison
David Hedison was an American film and television actor best known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the 1960s sci-fi series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and for appearing in two James Bond films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Doohan Description of subject: James Doohan was a Canadian actor best known for portraying Chief Engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the Star Trek franchise.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Operation -- Annihilate!
linked to: James Doohan
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Man Trap"
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Space Seed"
subject linked to:
The key to saving the future can only be found in the past.
subject linked to:
Roosevelt High School
linked to: James Doohan
subject linked to:
Star Trek episode "Arena"
subject linked to:
Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon"
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Menagerie, Part I"
subject linked to:
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Menagerie, Part II"