James Doran
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James Doran was a screenwriter best known for adapting Len Deighton’s spy novel "The Ipcress File" for the 1965 film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Doran canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10463168 — 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 Doran Context triple: [The Ipcress File, screenwriter, James Doran]
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A.
David Durkan
David Durkan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
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B.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara was an American attorney best known for being one of the later husbands of Hungarian-American socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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C.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
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D.
James Durkan
James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
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E.
Ian Donnelly
Ian Donnelly is a theoretical physicist and linguist who serves as one of the central human protagonists in the science fiction film "Arrival," working alongside Louise Banks to communicate with extraterrestrial visitors.
- 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 Doran Target entity description: James Doran was a screenwriter best known for adapting Len Deighton’s spy novel "The Ipcress File" for the 1965 film.
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A.
David Durkan
David Durkan is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Durkan, though specific widely known public details about him are not clearly established.
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B.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara was an American attorney best known for being one of the later husbands of Hungarian-American socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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C.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
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D.
James Durkan
James Durkan is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the Durkan surname.
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E.
Ian Donnelly
Ian Donnelly is a theoretical physicist and linguist who serves as one of the central human protagonists in the science fiction film "Arrival," working alongside Louise Banks to communicate with extraterrestrial visitors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
screenwriter
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spy film ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
The Ipcress File (novel)
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linked to:
The Ipcress File
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| adaptedWorkOfAuthor | Len Deighton ⓘ |
| author | Len Deighton ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Ipcress File (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Ipcress File
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| knownFor | adapting Len Deighton’s novel The Ipcress File for film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Ipcress File (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Ipcress File
screenplay for The Ipcress File ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | James Doran ⓘ |
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 Doran Description of subject: James Doran was a screenwriter best known for adapting Len Deighton’s spy novel "The Ipcress File" for the 1965 film.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
James Doran