Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods
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The Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods refers to his Oscar nomination for his leading performance in the 1986 biographical film "Salvador."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods canonical | 1 |
| James Woods – Academy Award for Best Actor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839258 — 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: Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods Context triple: [Salvador, awardNomination, Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods]
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A.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In America
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In America is the Oscar nomination Djimon Hounsou received for his acclaimed supporting performance in the 2002 drama film "In America."
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B.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A History of Violence
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A History of Violence is the Oscar nomination William Hurt received for his acclaimed supporting performance in David Cronenberg’s 2005 crime thriller.
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C.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is the Oscar nomination recognizing Max von Sydow’s acclaimed supporting performance in the 2011 drama film "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
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D.
Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for I Never Sang for My Father
The Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for "I Never Sang for My Father" recognizes Melvyn Douglas’s acclaimed lead performance in the 1970 family drama film.
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E.
Academy Award for Best Actor for Runaway Train
The Academy Award for Best Actor for Runaway Train is the Oscar nomination Jon Voight received for his acclaimed leading performance in the 1985 action-thriller film "Runaway Train."
- 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: Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods Target entity description: The Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods refers to his Oscar nomination for his leading performance in the 1986 biographical film "Salvador."
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A.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In America
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In America is the Oscar nomination Djimon Hounsou received for his acclaimed supporting performance in the 2002 drama film "In America."
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B.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A History of Violence
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for A History of Violence is the Oscar nomination William Hurt received for his acclaimed supporting performance in David Cronenberg’s 2005 crime thriller.
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C.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is the Oscar nomination recognizing Max von Sydow’s acclaimed supporting performance in the 2011 drama film "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
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D.
Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for I Never Sang for My Father
The Academy Award for Best Actor nomination for "I Never Sang for My Father" recognizes Melvyn Douglas’s acclaimed lead performance in the 1970 family drama film.
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E.
Academy Award for Best Actor for Runaway Train
The Academy Award for Best Actor for Runaway Train is the Oscar nomination Jon Voight received for his acclaimed leading performance in the 1985 action-thriller film "Runaway Train."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Academy Awards nomination
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film award nomination ⓘ |
| awardCategory | Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | biographical film ⓘ |
| ceremonyNumber | 59th Academy Awards ⓘ |
| ceremonyYear | 1987 ⓘ |
| competingCategory | Best Actor in a Leading Role ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| didNotWin | true ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Oliver Stone ⓘ |
| filmGenre | war drama ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| forFilm | Salvador ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| nominatedPerson | James Woods ⓘ |
| notableAs | James Woods’s first Academy Award nomination ⓘ |
| outcome | nominated ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter | Richard Boyle ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| recognizes |
acting performance
ⓘ
lead acting performance ⓘ |
| roleType | leading role ⓘ |
| subjectOf | James Woods ⓘ |
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: Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods Description of subject: The Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods refers to his Oscar nomination for his leading performance in the 1986 biographical film "Salvador."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Academy Award for Best Actor for James Woods