Jason Matthews
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Jason Matthews was a former CIA officer turned bestselling American novelist best known for his espionage thriller "Red Sparrow."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jason Matthews canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6126465 — 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: Jason Matthews Context triple: [Red Sparrow, authorOfSourceWork, Jason Matthews]
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A.
Christopher Henderson
Christopher Henderson is a fictional high-ranking counterterrorism operative and former mentor to Jack Bauer in the television series "24."
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B.
Don Matthews
Don Matthews was a highly successful and influential Canadian Football League head coach, renowned for leading multiple teams to Grey Cup championships.
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C.
Rich Harris
Rich Harris is a software engineer and journalist best known for creating the Svelte JavaScript framework and his work on interactive data visualizations.
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D.
Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Southern Gothic horror fiction and for writing the screenplay for the film "Beetlejuice."
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E.
Greg Mathieson
Greg Mathieson is an American keyboardist, composer, and producer known for his work in jazz, fusion, and pop music, collaborating with numerous prominent artists.
- 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: Jason Matthews Target entity description: Jason Matthews was a former CIA officer turned bestselling American novelist best known for his espionage thriller "Red Sparrow."
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A.
Christopher Henderson
Christopher Henderson is a fictional high-ranking counterterrorism operative and former mentor to Jack Bauer in the television series "24."
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B.
Don Matthews
Don Matthews was a highly successful and influential Canadian Football League head coach, renowned for leading multiple teams to Grey Cup championships.
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C.
Rich Harris
Rich Harris is a software engineer and journalist best known for creating the Svelte JavaScript framework and his work on interactive data visualizations.
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D.
Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Southern Gothic horror fiction and for writing the screenplay for the film "Beetlejuice."
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E.
Greg Mathieson
Greg Mathieson is an American keyboardist, composer, and producer known for his work in jazz, fusion, and pop music, collaborating with numerous prominent artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
intelligence officer ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Red Sparrow (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author |
Jason Matthews
NERFINISHED
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Jason Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Red Sparrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | corticobasal degeneration ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-02-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-04-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Washington and Lee University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ |
| followedBy | Palace of Treason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
espionage fiction
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espionage fiction ⓘ spy thriller ⓘ spy thriller ⓘ |
| hasPart | Red Sparrow trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Palace of Treason
NERFINISHED
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Red Sparrow NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kremlin’s Candidate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
intelligence officer
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novelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Rancho Mirage, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
2013
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2015 ⓘ 2018 ⓘ |
| spouse | Suzanne Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jason Matthews Description of subject: Jason Matthews was a former CIA officer turned bestselling American novelist best known for his espionage thriller "Red Sparrow."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.