John Goodman
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John Goodman is an American actor known for his roles in the sitcom "Roseanne," numerous Coen brothers films, and for voicing Sulley in Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Goodman canonical | 63 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T614956 — 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: John Goodman Context triple: [Monsters University, voiceCastMember, John Goodman]
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A.
Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," "Titanic," and "Apollo 13."
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B.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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C.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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D.
Danny Glover
Danny Glover is an American actor and activist best known for his roles in films such as the "Lethal Weapon" series and "The Color Purple."
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E.
Clint Howard
Clint Howard is an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, often appearing in projects directed by his brother Ron Howard.
- 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: John Goodman Target entity description: John Goodman is an American actor known for his roles in the sitcom "Roseanne," numerous Coen brothers films, and for voicing Sulley in Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." franchise.
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A.
Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton was an American actor and filmmaker known for his versatile roles in films such as "Aliens," "Twister," "Titanic," and "Apollo 13."
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B.
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as football coach Hayden Fox on the TV sitcom "Coach" and for voicing Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible in Pixar's "The Incredibles" films.
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C.
James Woods
James Woods is an American actor known for his intense performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Salvador," "Videodrome," and "Casino."
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D.
Danny Glover
Danny Glover is an American actor and activist best known for his roles in films such as the "Lethal Weapon" series and "The Color Purple."
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E.
Clint Howard
Clint Howard is an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television, often appearing in projects directed by his brother Ron Howard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: John Goodman Description of subject: John Goodman is an American actor known for his roles in the sitcom "Roseanne," numerous Coen brothers films, and for voicing Sulley in Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." franchise.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Speed Racer (2008 film)
subject surface form:
King Ralph
subject surface form:
True Stories
subject surface form:
James P. Sullivan
subject surface form:
Affton, Missouri