Jack Wild
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Jack Wild was an English actor and singer best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as the Artful Dodger in the film musical "Oliver!" and for his later work in children's television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Wild canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11172668 — 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: Jack Wild Context triple: [Oliver!, starring, Jack Wild]
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A.
Jack Wilder
Jack Wilder is a street magician and escape artist who becomes one of the Four Horsemen illusionists in the heist thriller film "Now You See Me."
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B.
Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis is an author best known for writing the song "Teen Age Idol."
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C.
Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis is an actor known for appearing in the film "Hellgate."
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D.
Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis is a music producer known for his work on the project "Class Clown."
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E.
Eddie Dodd
Eddie Dodd is a jaded former civil rights lawyer who becomes reinvigorated while defending a wrongfully convicted man in the legal thriller film "True Believer."
- 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: Jack Wild Target entity description: Jack Wild was an English actor and singer best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as the Artful Dodger in the film musical "Oliver!" and for his later work in children's television.
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A.
Jack Wilder
Jack Wilder is a street magician and escape artist who becomes one of the Four Horsemen illusionists in the heist thriller film "Now You See Me."
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B.
Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis is an author best known for writing the song "Teen Age Idol."
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C.
Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis is an actor known for appearing in the film "Hellgate."
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D.
Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis is a music producer known for his work on the project "Class Clown."
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E.
Eddie Dodd
Eddie Dodd is a jaded former civil rights lawyer who becomes reinvigorated while defending a wrongfully convicted man in the legal thriller film "True Believer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ singer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
mouth cancer
ⓘ
oral cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-09-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-03-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Corona Stage Academy
ⓘ
linked to:
Corona Theatre School
|
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| familyName | Wild ⓘ |
| fullName | Jack Wild ⓘ |
| genre |
children's television
ⓘ
musical film ⓘ |
| givenName | Jack ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| knownFor |
portrayal of the Artful Dodger in Oliver!
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roles in children's television in the late 1960s and 1970s ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | to Gaynor Jones: 1985 ⓘ |
| marriageStart |
to Claire Harding: 2005
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to Gaynor Jones: 1976 ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| notableAward | BAFTA nomination for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles ⓘ |
| notableWork |
H.R. Pufnstuf (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
H.R. Pufnstuf
Melody (1971 film) ⓘ Oliver! (1968 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Oliver!
Pufnstuf (1970 film) ⓘ
linked to:
H.R. Pufnstuf
The 14 (1973 film) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
H.R. Pufnstuf (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
H.R. Pufnstuf
Melody (1971 film) ⓘ Oliver! (1968 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Oliver!
Pufnstuf (1970 film) ⓘ
linked to:
H.R. Pufnstuf
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991 film) ⓘ The 14 (1973 film) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Royton, Lancashire, England
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linked to:
Royton
|
| placeOfDeath | Midhurst, West Sussex, England ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Artful Dodger
ⓘ
linked to:
The Artful Dodger
|
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Claire Harding
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Gaynor Jones ⓘ |
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: Jack Wild Description of subject: Jack Wild was an English actor and singer best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as the Artful Dodger in the film musical "Oliver!" and for his later work in children's television.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.