Dean Jones
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Dean Jones was an American actor best known for his leading roles in numerous Disney live-action films during the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dean Jones canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5228499 — 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: Dean Jones Context triple: [That Darn Cat! (1965 film songs), associatedWith, Dean Jones]
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A.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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B.
Seymour Cassel
Seymour Cassel was an American character actor known for his longtime collaboration with director John Cassavetes and his roles in numerous independent and mainstream films.
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C.
Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and as the gruff but loving father in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
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D.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
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E.
Robert Parrish
Robert Parrish was an American film editor and director, as well as a former child actor, known for his work on several classic Hollywood 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: Dean Jones Target entity description: Dean Jones was an American actor best known for his leading roles in numerous Disney live-action films during the 1960s and 1970s.
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A.
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam was an American character actor known for his versatile supporting roles in classic films such as "Psycho," "12 Angry Men," and "A Thousand Clowns," for which he won an Academy Award.
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B.
Seymour Cassel
Seymour Cassel was an American character actor known for his longtime collaboration with director John Cassavetes and his roles in numerous independent and mainstream films.
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C.
Darren McGavin
Darren McGavin was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" and as the gruff but loving father in the classic film "A Christmas Story."
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D.
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is an American actor known for his prolific film and television career, including an iconic turn as the villainous Time Lord known as the Master in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.
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E.
Robert Parrish
Robert Parrish was an American film editor and director, as well as a former child actor, known for his work on several classic Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Disney Legends NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Dean Carroll Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Parkinson's disease NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-01-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-09-01 ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Jones ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
stage acting ⓘ television acting ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| givenName | Dean ⓘ |
| hasPartInTheSeries | Herbie film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | leading roles in Disney live-action films in the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Dean Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beethoven (film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Blackbeard's Ghost NERFINISHED ⓘ Clear and Present Danger (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Company of Killers NERFINISHED ⓘ Ensign Pulver NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo NERFINISHED ⓘ Monkeys, Go Home! NERFINISHED ⓘ Snowball Express NERFINISHED ⓘ That Darn Cat! NERFINISHED ⓘ The Love Bug NERFINISHED ⓘ The Million Dollar Duck NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shaggy D.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ugly Dachshund NERFINISHED ⓘ Under the Yum Yum Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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singer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Decatur, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Jim Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lory Patrick
NERFINISHED
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Mae Entwisle Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–2000s ⓘ |
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: Dean Jones Description of subject: Dean Jones was an American actor best known for his leading roles in numerous Disney live-action films during the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.