Jim Reardon
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Jim Reardon is the determined insurance investigator in the 1946 film noir "The Killers," who pieces together the mysterious circumstances surrounding a man's murder.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Reardon canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6503707 — 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)
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Target entity: Jim Reardon Context triple: [The Killers (1946 film), character, Jim Reardon]
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A.
Jim Reardon
Jim Reardon is an American animation writer and director best known for his work on The Simpsons and for co-writing the screenplay for Disney’s Zootopia.
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B.
Don Reynolds
Don Reynolds is a name shared by several individuals, most notably an American child actor and animal trainer who appeared in Western films in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Joe Wredden
Joe Wredden is an actor known for his role in the 2013 television miniseries "The Bible."
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D.
Guy Weadick
Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
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E.
Jere Burns
Jere Burns is an American character actor known for his sharp, often villainous or darkly comedic roles in television series such as "Dear John," "Justified," and "Burn Notice."
- 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: Jim Reardon Target entity description: Jim Reardon is the determined insurance investigator in the 1946 film noir "The Killers," who pieces together the mysterious circumstances surrounding a man's murder.
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A.
Jim Reardon
Jim Reardon is an American animation writer and director best known for his work on The Simpsons and for co-writing the screenplay for Disney’s Zootopia.
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B.
Don Reynolds
Don Reynolds is a name shared by several individuals, most notably an American child actor and animal trainer who appeared in Western films in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Joe Wredden
Joe Wredden is an actor known for his role in the 2013 television miniseries "The Bible."
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D.
Guy Weadick
Guy Weadick was an American-born cowboy, promoter, and showman best known for creating the Calgary Stampede and helping popularize rodeo culture in Canada.
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E.
Jere Burns
Jere Burns is an American character actor known for his sharp, often villainous or darkly comedic roles in television series such as "Dear John," "Justified," and "Burn Notice."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Killers ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | The Killers (1946 film) ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Big Jim Colfax
ⓘ
Kitty Collins ⓘ Ole "Swede" Andersen ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
analytical
ⓘ
determined ⓘ persistent ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | insurance company ⓘ |
| filmBasedOn | short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Robert Siodmak ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | film noir ⓘ |
| goal |
determine why the Swede did not try to escape his killers
ⓘ
resolve the insurance company’s liability ⓘ |
| inUniverseTimePeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| investigates | murder of Ole "Swede" Andersen ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | drives the investigation framing the flashbacks ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
investigator
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | insurance investigator ⓘ |
| plotFunction |
pieces together the victim's past through interviews
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uncovers the circumstances of a contract killing ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Edmond O'Brien ⓘ |
| primaryActivity | investigating an insurance claim ⓘ |
| worksIn | small town where the Swede is murdered ⓘ |
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: Jim Reardon Description of subject: Jim Reardon is the determined insurance investigator in the 1946 film noir "The Killers," who pieces together the mysterious circumstances surrounding a man's murder.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Killers