James Kearns
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James Kearns is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2002 crime thriller film "John Q."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Kearns canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9839564 — 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 Kearns Context triple: [John Q, screenwriter, James Kearns]
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A.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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B.
John Carnes
John Carnes was an American industrialist best known for co-founding the Lima Locomotive Works, a major manufacturer of steam locomotives in the United States.
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C.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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D.
Robert Gaskins
Robert Gaskins is a software entrepreneur best known as the co-creator of Microsoft PowerPoint and a key figure in the early development of presentation software.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- 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 Kearns Target entity description: James Kearns is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2002 crime thriller film "John Q."
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A.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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B.
John Carnes
John Carnes was an American industrialist best known for co-founding the Lima Locomotive Works, a major manufacturer of steam locomotives in the United States.
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C.
Anthony McHenry
Anthony McHenry is an American professional basketball player best known for his long, successful career in Japan’s B.League, particularly as a key contributor to the Ryukyu Golden Kings.
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D.
Robert Gaskins
Robert Gaskins is a software entrepreneur best known as the co-creator of Microsoft PowerPoint and a key figure in the early development of presentation software.
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E.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime thriller film
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film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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thriller film ⓘ |
| notableWork | John Q ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | James Kearns ⓘ |
| workDescription | screenplay for the 2002 crime thriller film "John Q" ⓘ |
| wrote | John Q ⓘ |
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 Kearns Description of subject: James Kearns is an American screenwriter best known for writing the 2002 crime thriller film "John Q."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.