John
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John is the first name of American actor and producer Scoot McNairy, known for his roles in films like "Argo" and the series "Halt and Catch Fire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5907812 — 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: John Context triple: [Scoot McNairy, givenName, John]
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John
John is the given name of John H. Hammond Jr., the influential American record producer and talent scout known for discovering and promoting numerous major jazz, blues, and rock musicians.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John F. Sattler, likely referring to him in a more informal or abbreviated context.
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C.
John
John II of Aragon was a 15th-century King of Aragon and Navarre whose reign was marked by dynastic conflicts and the consolidation of Spanish territories.
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D.
John
John is the given name of John B. Watson, the influential American psychologist who founded behaviorism.
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E.
John
John is the given name of Australian cinematographer John Seale, known for his work on films such as "The English Patient" and "Mad Max: Fury Road."
- 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: John Target entity description: John is the first name of American actor and producer Scoot McNairy, known for his roles in films like "Argo" and the series "Halt and Catch Fire."
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John
John is the first name of American actor Theo Rossi, known for his roles in series like "Sons of Anarchy" and "Luke Cage."
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B.
John
John is the given name of American actor John Goodman, renowned for his roles in film, television, and theater.
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C.
John
John is the given name of actor John Cho, a Korean American performer known for roles in the "Harold & Kumar" films and the "Star Trek" reboot series.
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D.
John
John is the first name of American filmmaker John Lee Hancock, known for directing and writing several popular Hollywood films.
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John
John is the given name of English actor and musician John Simm, known for roles in series such as "Life on Mars" and "Doctor Who."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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drama ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| knownFor |
supporting film roles
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television drama roles ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
12 Years a Slave
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Argo ⓘ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ⓘ Gone Girl ⓘ Halt and Catch Fire ⓘ Killing Them Softly ⓘ Monsters ⓘ Narcos: Mexico ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film producer ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of Argo
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cast of Halt and Catch Fire ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stageName | Scoot McNairy ⓘ |
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: John Description of subject: John is the first name of American actor and producer Scoot McNairy, known for his roles in films like "Argo" and the series "Halt and Catch Fire."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.