James Hobert
E712029
James Hobert is a minor fictional character appearing in the American television sitcom "Spin City."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Hobert canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7849222 — 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: James Hobert Context triple: [Spin City, character, James Hobert]
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A.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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B.
Daniel P. Higgins
Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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C.
John Hembree
John Hembree is a musician best known for briefly serving as a bassist for the American rock band Paramore.
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D.
James Hagan
James Hagan was an American playwright best known for writing the stage play that became the basis for the classic film "The Strawberry Blonde."
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E.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
- 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: James Hobert Target entity description: James Hobert is a minor fictional character appearing in the American television sitcom "Spin City."
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A.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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B.
Daniel P. Higgins
Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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C.
John Hembree
John Hembree is a musician best known for briefly serving as a bassist for the American rock band Paramore.
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D.
James Hagan
James Hagan was an American playwright best known for writing the stage play that became the basis for the classic film "The Strawberry Blonde."
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E.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Spin City ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
Spin City universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Spin City
|
| medium | television series ⓘ |
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: James Hobert Description of subject: James Hobert is a minor fictional character appearing in the American television sitcom "Spin City."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.