James Whitaker
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James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Whitaker canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1809573 — 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 Whitaker Context triple: [Troop Zero, cinematographer, James Whitaker]
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A.
Mark Whitacre
Mark Whitacre is a real-life American whistleblower and former corporate executive whose story of exposing price-fixing at Archer Daniels Midland was dramatized in the film "The Informant!".
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B.
Mark Schweiker
Mark Schweiker is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.
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C.
Richard Priebus
Richard Priebus is the father of former Republican National Committee chairman and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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D.
Benjamin A. Smith III
Benjamin A. Smith III is an individual known primarily as the son and namesake of Benjamin A. Smith II.
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E.
Mike Richardson
Mike Richardson is an American comic book publisher and film producer best known as the founder of Dark Horse Comics and for producing numerous comic-based films and television projects.
- 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 Whitaker Target entity description: James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
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A.
Mark Whitacre
Mark Whitacre is a real-life American whistleblower and former corporate executive whose story of exposing price-fixing at Archer Daniels Midland was dramatized in the film "The Informant!".
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B.
Mark Schweiker
Mark Schweiker is an American politician who served as the 44th governor of Pennsylvania in the early 2000s.
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C.
Richard Priebus
Richard Priebus is the father of former Republican National Committee chairman and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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D.
Benjamin A. Smith III
Benjamin A. Smith III is an individual known primarily as the son and namesake of Benjamin A. Smith II.
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E.
Mike Richardson
Mike Richardson is an American comic book publisher and film producer best known as the founder of Dark Horse Comics and for producing numerous comic-based films and television projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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feature film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | James Whitaker ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | comedy-drama films ⓘ |
| knownFor | cinematography ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Troop Zero ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn | Troop Zero ⓘ |
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 Whitaker Description of subject: James Whitaker is a film cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the comedy-drama "Troop Zero."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.