James Riley
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James Riley is a film and video game director best known for directing the controversial 1992 interactive movie game "Night Trap."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Riley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8435975 — 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 Riley Context triple: [Night Trap, director, James Riley]
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A.
Riley Poole
Riley Poole is the witty, tech-savvy sidekick and computer expert who assists treasure hunter Benjamin Gates in the "National Treasure" film series.
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B.
Jackson Healy
Jackson Healy is a tough, no-nonsense enforcer who teams up with a hapless private investigator to unravel a conspiracy in the neo-noir action-comedy film "The Nice Guys."
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C.
Riley Freeman
Riley Freeman is a rebellious, street-smart eight-year-old boy from the animated series "The Boondocks," known for his hip-hop-influenced outlook, mischief, and frequent clashes with authority.
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D.
Timothy Christian Riley
Timothy Christian Riley is an American drummer, keyboardist, and producer best known as a member of the R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!.
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E.
Benjamin Rice
Benjamin Rice is a music producer known for his work on contemporary pop and soundtrack recordings.
- 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 Riley Target entity description: James Riley is a film and video game director best known for directing the controversial 1992 interactive movie game "Night Trap."
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A.
Riley Poole
Riley Poole is the witty, tech-savvy sidekick and computer expert who assists treasure hunter Benjamin Gates in the "National Treasure" film series.
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B.
Jackson Healy
Jackson Healy is a tough, no-nonsense enforcer who teams up with a hapless private investigator to unravel a conspiracy in the neo-noir action-comedy film "The Nice Guys."
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C.
Riley Freeman
Riley Freeman is a rebellious, street-smart eight-year-old boy from the animated series "The Boondocks," known for his hip-hop-influenced outlook, mischief, and frequent clashes with authority.
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D.
Timothy Christian Riley
Timothy Christian Riley is an American drummer, keyboardist, and producer best known as a member of the R&B group Tony! Toni! Toné!.
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E.
Benjamin Rice
Benjamin Rice is a music producer known for his work on contemporary pop and soundtrack recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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interactive movie video game ⓘ person ⓘ video game director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
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video game industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developer | Digital Pictures ⓘ |
| directed | Night Trap ⓘ |
| genre | interactive movie ⓘ |
| hasDirector | James Riley ⓘ |
| knownFor | directing Night Trap ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversy over video game violence
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involvement in early full-motion video games ⓘ |
| notableWork | Night Trap ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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video game director ⓘ |
| platform |
3DO
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Nintendo Switch ⓘ PC ⓘ PlayStation 4 ⓘ Sega CD ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Digital Pictures
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Hasbro Interactive ⓘ Limited Run Games ⓘ Sega ⓘ |
| subjectOf | 1993 United States congressional hearings on video game violence ⓘ |
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 Riley Description of subject: James Riley is a film and video game director best known for directing the controversial 1992 interactive movie game "Night Trap."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.