John Cornell
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John Cornell was an Australian film producer, writer, and actor best known for his work on the hit "Crocodile Dundee" films and his collaborations with comedian Paul Hogan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Cornell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7837319 — 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 Cornell Context triple: [Crocodile Dundee, producer, John Cornell]
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A.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
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B.
David Drumlin
David Drumlin is a high-ranking government science advisor and political figure in the science fiction film "Contact," often serving as a skeptical foil to the protagonist Ellie Arroway.
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C.
Barton Mumaw
Barton Mumaw was an influential American modern dancer and choreographer best known for his long collaboration with pioneering dance artist Ted Shawn.
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D.
David Mullen
David Mullen is a Grammy-nominated American Christian singer-songwriter and producer known for his contributions to contemporary Christian music in the 1990s and 2000s.
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E.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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 Cornell Target entity description: John Cornell was an Australian film producer, writer, and actor best known for his work on the hit "Crocodile Dundee" films and his collaborations with comedian Paul Hogan.
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A.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
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B.
David Drumlin
David Drumlin is a high-ranking government science advisor and political figure in the science fiction film "Contact," often serving as a skeptical foil to the protagonist Ellie Arroway.
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C.
Barton Mumaw
Barton Mumaw was an influential American modern dancer and choreographer best known for his long collaboration with pioneering dance artist Ted Shawn.
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D.
David Mullen
David Mullen is a Grammy-nominated American Christian singer-songwriter and producer known for his contributions to contemporary Christian music in the 1990s and 2000s.
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E.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Paul Hogan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| coWriterOf |
Crocodile Dundee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crocodile Dundee II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-03-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-07-23 ⓘ |
| employer | The Paul Hogan Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with Paul Hogan
ⓘ
producing Crocodile Dundee films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| notableAward | AFI Award for Best Original Screenplay (for Crocodile Dundee) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Almost an Angel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crocodile Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ Crocodile Dundee II NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paul Hogan Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| partner | Paul Hogan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Strop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producerOf |
Almost an Angel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crocodile Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ Crocodile Dundee II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Delvene Delaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn | Australian television comedy ⓘ |
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 Cornell Description of subject: John Cornell was an Australian film producer, writer, and actor best known for his work on the hit "Crocodile Dundee" films and his collaborations with comedian Paul Hogan.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.