Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.
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Joseph Henry Tobin Jr., better known as Tobin Bell, is an American actor most famous for portraying the serial killer John Kramer, also known as Jigsaw, in the "Saw" horror film franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Henry Tobin Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11572191 — 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: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr. Context triple: [Tobin Bell, birthName, Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.]
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A.
Richard M. Linnehan
Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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B.
Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain was a Canadian-American actor best known for playing the wealthy, kind-hearted father Philip Drummond on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes."
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C.
Jeff Tarpley
Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
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C. Douglas Dillon Jr.
C. Douglas Dillon Jr. is the son of former U.S. Treasury Secretary and diplomat C. Douglas Dillon, belonging to the prominent Dillon family associated with American finance and public service.
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C. Douglas Dillon
C. Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
- 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: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr. Target entity description: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr., better known as Tobin Bell, is an American actor most famous for portraying the serial killer John Kramer, also known as Jigsaw, in the "Saw" horror film franchise.
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A.
Richard M. Linnehan
Richard M. Linnehan is a NASA astronaut and veterinarian best known for his spacewalks and work on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.
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B.
Conrad Bain
Conrad Bain was a Canadian-American actor best known for playing the wealthy, kind-hearted father Philip Drummond on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes."
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C.
Jeff Tarpley
Jeff Tarpley is an American actor best known to the public as the ex-husband of comedian and television personality Sherri Shepherd.
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D.
C. Douglas Dillon Jr.
C. Douglas Dillon Jr. is the son of former U.S. Treasury Secretary and diplomat C. Douglas Dillon, belonging to the prominent Dillon family associated with American finance and public service.
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E.
C. Douglas Dillon
C. Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Joseph Henry Tobin Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-08-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston University
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Montclair State University NERFINISHED ⓘ Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Tobin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasActedIn |
24
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Boiling Point NERFINISHED ⓘ Criminal Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ Goodfellas NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Line of Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississippi Burning NERFINISHED ⓘ Nikita NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruby NERFINISHED ⓘ The Firm NERFINISHED ⓘ The Flash NERFINISHED ⓘ The Quick and the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ The X-Files NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVoiceActedIn |
Justice League Action
NERFINISHED
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The Road to El Dorado NERFINISHED ⓘ The Saw video game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying John Kramer in the Saw film franchise ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Jigsaw
NERFINISHED
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John Kramer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jigsaw
NERFINISHED
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Saw NERFINISHED ⓘ Saw 3D NERFINISHED ⓘ Saw II NERFINISHED ⓘ Saw III NERFINISHED ⓘ Saw IV NERFINISHED ⓘ Saw V NERFINISHED ⓘ Saw VI NERFINISHED ⓘ Saw X NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Queens, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stageName | Tobin Bell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr. Description of subject: Joseph Henry Tobin Jr., better known as Tobin Bell, is an American actor most famous for portraying the serial killer John Kramer, also known as Jigsaw, in the "Saw" horror film franchise.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.