James Greer
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James Greer is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former Spin magazine editor known for his work on films such as "The Spy Next Door" and his experimental fiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Greer canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10527604 — 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 Greer Context triple: [The Spy Next Door, writer, James Greer]
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A.
Stephen Holbrook
Stephen Holbrook is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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B.
John Ketcham
John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
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C.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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D.
Gregory Bourke
Gregory Bourke is an American LGBTQ+ rights activist known for his role as a lead plaintiff in the landmark same-sex marriage case Love v. Beshear.
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E.
Edward Reeves
Edward Reeves was a teacher and mentor known for instructing Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist famous for treating King George VI.
- 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 Greer Target entity description: James Greer is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former Spin magazine editor known for his work on films such as "The Spy Next Door" and his experimental fiction.
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A.
Stephen Holbrook
Stephen Holbrook is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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B.
John Ketcham
John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
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C.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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D.
Gregory Bourke
Gregory Bourke is an American LGBTQ+ rights activist known for his role as a lead plaintiff in the landmark same-sex marriage case Love v. Beshear.
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E.
Edward Reeves
Edward Reeves was a teacher and mentor known for instructing Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist famous for treating King George VI.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editor
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Spin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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journalism ⓘ literature ⓘ music journalism ⓘ |
| genre |
experimental fiction
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postmodern literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
editing work at Spin magazine
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experimental fiction ⓘ screenwriting for feature films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Artificial Light
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Bad Eminence ⓘ Guided By Voices: A Brief History ⓘ
linked to:
Guided by Voices
The Failure ⓘ The Spy Next Door ⓘ |
| occupation |
magazine editor
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music journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor at Spin ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| wrote |
Artificial Light
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Bad Eminence ⓘ Guided By Voices: A Brief History ⓘ
linked to:
Guided by Voices
The Failure ⓘ screenplay for The Spy Next Door ⓘ |
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 Greer Description of subject: James Greer is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former Spin magazine editor known for his work on films such as "The Spy Next Door" and his experimental fiction.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.