James Murray
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James Murray was an American silent film actor best known for his acclaimed performance in King Vidor’s 1928 drama "The Crowd."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Murray canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11464629 — 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 Murray Context triple: [The Crowd, starring, James Murray]
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A.
James Murray
James Murray was an architect known for his work on significant public buildings in Edinburgh, including the design of Parliament House.
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B.
James Murray
James Murray was an 18th-century British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in Canada during the Seven Years' War and as the first British governor of Quebec.
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C.
James Murray
James Murray is an American comedian and television personality best known as a member of the comedy troupe The Tenderloins and a star of the hidden-camera show "Impractical Jokers."
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Sir James Murray (lexicographer)
Sir James Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known as the primary editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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James Murray (historical)
James Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known for serving as the principal editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
- 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 Murray Target entity description: James Murray was an American silent film actor best known for his acclaimed performance in King Vidor’s 1928 drama "The Crowd."
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A.
James Murray
James Murray was an architect known for his work on significant public buildings in Edinburgh, including the design of Parliament House.
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B.
James Murray
James Murray was an 18th-century British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his leadership in Canada during the Seven Years' War and as the first British governor of Quebec.
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C.
James Murray
James Murray is an American comedian and television personality best known as a member of the comedy troupe The Tenderloins and a star of the hidden-camera show "Impractical Jokers."
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D.
Sir James Murray (lexicographer)
Sir James Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known as the primary editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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E.
James Murray (historical)
James Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known for serving as the principal editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | American silent cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | silent film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | James Murray ⓘ |
| notableFor | acclaimed performance in King Vidor’s 1928 drama "The Crowd" ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Crowd ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| starredIn | The Crowd ⓘ |
| workedWith | King Vidor ⓘ |
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 Murray Description of subject: James Murray was an American silent film actor best known for his acclaimed performance in King Vidor’s 1928 drama "The Crowd."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.