Jim O’Brien
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Jim O’Brien is the father of American actress Peri Gilpin, best known for her role as Roz Doyle on the television series "Frasier."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim O’Brien canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9886135 — 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 O’Brien Context triple: [Peri Gilpin, parent, Jim O’Brien]
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A.
Jim O’Brien
Jim O’Brien is a former American football placekicker best known for kicking the game-winning field goal for the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V.
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B.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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C.
Brian O'Neill
Brian O'Neill is an American professional ice hockey forward known for his standout collegiate career at Yale University and subsequent success in North American and European leagues.
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D.
Jim Cahill
Jim Cahill is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Cahill surname.
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E.
Jim Cunningham
Jim Cunningham is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including a fictional motivational speaker in the film "Donnie Darko" and various real-life professionals in sports, politics, and media.
- 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 O’Brien Target entity description: Jim O’Brien is the father of American actress Peri Gilpin, best known for her role as Roz Doyle on the television series "Frasier."
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A.
Jim O’Brien
Jim O’Brien is a former American football placekicker best known for kicking the game-winning field goal for the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V.
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B.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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C.
Brian O'Neill
Brian O'Neill is an American professional ice hockey forward known for his standout collegiate career at Yale University and subsequent success in North American and European leagues.
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D.
Jim Cahill
Jim Cahill is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Cahill surname.
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E.
Jim Cunningham
Jim Cunningham is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including a fictional motivational speaker in the film "Donnie Darko" and various real-life professionals in sports, politics, and media.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | James Franklin Oldham ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | skydiving accident ⓘ |
| child | Peri Gilpin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-11-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1983-09-25 ⓘ |
| employer |
KPRC-TV
ⓘ
KTRK-TV ⓘ WPVI-TV ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Peri Gilpin ⓘ |
| name | Jim O’Brien ⓘ |
| notableRole | weatherman on WPVI-TV in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| notableWork | Action News (WPVI-TV) ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcaster
ⓘ
television personality ⓘ television weatherman ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Galveston
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Philadelphia ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Sandra Jo Gilpin ⓘ |
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 O’Brien Description of subject: Jim O’Brien is the father of American actress Peri Gilpin, best known for her role as Roz Doyle on the television series "Frasier."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.