John Flynn
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John Flynn was an American film director best known for his gritty crime and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s, including the cult classic "Rolling Thunder."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Flynn canonical | 5 |
| John Patrick Vivian Flynn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913562 — 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: John Flynn Context triple: [The Outfit (1973 film), director, John Flynn]
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A.
Sherman Fairchild
Sherman Fairchild was an American industrialist and inventor who founded numerous technology companies and played a pivotal role in the early development of the semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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B.
William Fairchild
William Fairchild was a British screenwriter and film director active in the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable war and drama films.
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C.
Ellsworth Hoagland
Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Curtis Wright
Curtis Wright is an American country musician and singer-songwriter known for his work as a vocalist and guitarist, including a stint with the country-rock band Pure Prairie League.
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E.
Thomas Patten Stafford
Thomas Patten Stafford was an American NASA astronaut, Air Force general, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 10 mission that orbited the Moon as a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
- 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: John Flynn Target entity description: John Flynn was an American film director best known for his gritty crime and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s, including the cult classic "Rolling Thunder."
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A.
Sherman Fairchild
Sherman Fairchild was an American industrialist and inventor who founded numerous technology companies and played a pivotal role in the early development of the semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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B.
William Fairchild
William Fairchild was a British screenwriter and film director active in the mid-20th century, known for his work on several notable war and drama films.
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C.
Ellsworth Hoagland
Ellsworth Hoagland was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Curtis Wright
Curtis Wright is an American country musician and singer-songwriter known for his work as a vocalist and guitarist, including a stint with the country-rock band Pure Prairie League.
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E.
Thomas Patten Stafford
Thomas Patten Stafford was an American NASA astronaut, Air Force general, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 10 mission that orbited the Moon as a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-03-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2007-04-04 ⓘ |
| directed |
Best Seller
NERFINISHED
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Brainscan NERFINISHED ⓘ Defiance NERFINISHED ⓘ Lock Up NERFINISHED ⓘ Night of the Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Out for Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ Rolling Thunder NERFINISHED ⓘ Scorpio NERFINISHED ⓘ The Jerusalem File NERFINISHED ⓘ The Outfit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director |
John Flynn
NERFINISHED
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John Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ John Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ John Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ John Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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crime film ⓘ crime film ⓘ crime film ⓘ crime thriller film ⓘ prison film ⓘ revenge film ⓘ science fiction horror film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
action films of the 1970s and 1980s
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gritty crime films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Best Seller
NERFINISHED
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Brainscan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lock Up NERFINISHED ⓘ Rolling Thunder NERFINISHED ⓘ The Outfit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States of America 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: John Flynn Description of subject: John Flynn was an American film director best known for his gritty crime and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s, including the cult classic "Rolling Thunder."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Patrick Vivian Flynn