Henry Swinton
E670076
Henry Swinton is a grieving father in the film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," whose complex relationship with the robotic boy David explores themes of love, loss, and what it means to be human.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Swinton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7436944 — 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: Henry Swinton Context triple: [A.I. Artificial Intelligence, character, Henry Swinton]
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A.
John Brotherton
John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
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B.
William Burnes
William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
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C.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Thomas Rutherford
Thomas Rutherford was an early settler and landowner in Napa Valley whose name was given to the community of Rutherford, California.
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E.
William Somerville
William Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish physician and army medical officer best known as the husband and supporter of pioneering mathematician and science writer Mary Somerville.
- 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: Henry Swinton Target entity description: Henry Swinton is a grieving father in the film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," whose complex relationship with the robotic boy David explores themes of love, loss, and what it means to be human.
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A.
John Brotherton
John Brotherton is an American actor known for his roles in horror films like "The Conjuring" and television series such as "Fuller House."
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B.
William Burnes
William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
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C.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Thomas Rutherford
Thomas Rutherford was an early settler and landowner in Napa Valley whose name was given to the community of Rutherford, California.
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E.
William Somerville
William Somerville was a 19th-century Scottish physician and army medical officer best known as the husband and supporter of pioneering mathematician and science writer Mary Somerville.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adoptiveParentOf | David ⓘ |
| appearsIn | A.I. Artificial Intelligence ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| appearsInYearOfRelease | 2001 ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
ethics of artificial intelligence
ⓘ
humanity ⓘ loss ⓘ love ⓘ parenthood ⓘ |
| child | Martin Swinton ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Steven Spielberg ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasEmotionalState |
conflict about accepting David
ⓘ
grief over his son Martin ⓘ |
| inUniverseTechnologyContext |
advanced robotics
ⓘ
mecha (robots) ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
adoptive father of a robot child
ⓘ
father of a comatose child ⓘ grieving father ⓘ |
| occupation | employee at a technology company ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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| portrayedBy | Sam Robards ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
David
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Martin Swinton ⓘ Monica Swinton ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| spouse | Monica Swinton ⓘ |
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: Henry Swinton Description of subject: Henry Swinton is a grieving father in the film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence," whose complex relationship with the robotic boy David explores themes of love, loss, and what it means to be human.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.