James Payton
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James Payton is a tough, no-nonsense Atlanta police detective portrayed by Ice Cube in the action-comedy film "Ride Along."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Payton canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10836682 — 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 Payton Context triple: [Ride Along, mainCharacter, James Payton]
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A.
Lawrence Payton
Lawrence Payton was an American singer, songwriter, and arranger best known as a founding member of the Motown vocal group the Four Tops.
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B.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
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C.
Alphonso Johnson
Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz and jazz fusion bassist best known for his work with Weather Report and numerous other influential fusion and rock acts.
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D.
Frederic Pryor
Frederic Pryor is a cinematographer known for his work on the dark fantasy horror film "Horns."
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E.
Frederic Pryor
Frederic Pryor was an American economics student who was arrested in East Germany in 1961 and later became known for being one of the prisoners exchanged during the Cold War spy swap depicted in the film "Bridge of Spies."
- 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 Payton Target entity description: James Payton is a tough, no-nonsense Atlanta police detective portrayed by Ice Cube in the action-comedy film "Ride Along."
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A.
Lawrence Payton
Lawrence Payton was an American singer, songwriter, and arranger best known as a founding member of the Motown vocal group the Four Tops.
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B.
Willis Jackson
Willis Jackson is a central character on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," portrayed as the streetwise older brother who, along with his younger sibling Arnold, is adopted by wealthy widower Philip Drummond.
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C.
Alphonso Johnson
Alphonso Johnson is an American jazz and jazz fusion bassist best known for his work with Weather Report and numerous other influential fusion and rock acts.
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D.
Frederic Pryor
Frederic Pryor is a cinematographer known for his work on the dark fantasy horror film "Horns."
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E.
Frederic Pryor
Frederic Pryor was an American economics student who was arrested in East Germany in 1961 and later became known for being one of the prisoners exchanged during the Cold War spy swap depicted in the film "Bridge of Spies."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Ride Along
ⓘ
Ride Along 2 ⓘ |
| associatedWithActor | Kevin Hart ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
no-nonsense
ⓘ
protective ⓘ skeptical ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Greg Coolidge
ⓘ
Matt Manfredi ⓘ Phil Hay ⓘ |
| createdFor | Ride Along ⓘ |
| employer | Atlanta Police Department ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfFirstAppearance | Tim Story ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Ride Along (2014 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ride Along
|
| genreOfWork | action comedy film ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Ben Barber ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Angela Payton ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | testing Ben Barber on a police ride-along ⓘ |
| occupation | police detective ⓘ |
| policeRank | detective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ice Cube ⓘ |
| relativeRelationType | brother-in-law of Ben Barber ⓘ |
| siblingRelationType | older brother of Angela Payton ⓘ |
| worksInCity | Atlanta ⓘ |
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 Payton Description of subject: James Payton is a tough, no-nonsense Atlanta police detective portrayed by Ice Cube in the action-comedy film "Ride Along."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.