Jim Matheson
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Jim Matheson is an American politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Utah from 2001 to 2015.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Matheson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8361334 — 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: Jim Matheson Context triple: [Matheson, hasNotableBearer, Jim Matheson]
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A.
James Kuffner
James Kuffner is an American roboticist and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in motion planning and for leadership roles at Google and Toyota in robotics and autonomous systems.
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B.
Chris Ridenhour
Chris Ridenhour is a film composer known for scoring numerous low-budget genre movies, including works produced by The Asylum.
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C.
John Stewart
John Stewart is a prominent DC Comics superhero best known as one of the primary Green Lanterns of Earth, a former U.S. Marine and architect who wields a power ring fueled by willpower.
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D.
John Stewart
John Stewart was an American folk musician and singer-songwriter best known for his work with the Kingston Trio and for writing the hit song "Daydream Believer."
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E.
John Stewart
John Stewart was an American statesman who represented South Carolina as a delegate in the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
- 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 Matheson Target entity description: Jim Matheson is an American politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Utah from 2001 to 2015.
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A.
James Kuffner
James Kuffner is an American roboticist and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in motion planning and for leadership roles at Google and Toyota in robotics and autonomous systems.
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B.
Chris Ridenhour
Chris Ridenhour is a film composer known for scoring numerous low-budget genre movies, including works produced by The Asylum.
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C.
John Stewart
John Stewart is the father of American actress Kristen Stewart, known for his work behind the scenes in the entertainment industry as a stage manager and television producer.
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D.
John Stewart
John Stewart is a prominent DC Comics superhero best known as one of the primary Green Lanterns of Earth, a former U.S. Marine and architect who wields a power ring fueled by willpower.
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E.
John Stewart
John Stewart was an American folk musician and singer-songwriter best known for his work with the Kingston Trio and for writing the hit song "Daydream Believer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryRepresented | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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UCLA Anderson School of Management NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2015 (as U.S. Representative) ⓘ |
| familyName | Matheson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Scott M. Matheson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
centrist
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fiscally conservative Democrat ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Utah ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| partOf | Blue Dog Coalition NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah's 2nd congressional district
ⓘ
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah's 4th congressional district ⓘ United States representative NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedArea |
Utah's 2nd congressional district
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Utah's 4th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 2001 (as U.S. Representative) ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Utah 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: Jim Matheson Description of subject: Jim Matheson is an American politician who served as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Utah from 2001 to 2015.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.