John Curtis Estes
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John Curtis Estes is the birth name of John Holmes, a notorious American adult film actor who became one of the most famous pornographic performers of the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Curtis Estes canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1866240 — 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 Curtis Estes Context triple: [John Holmes, birthName, John Curtis Estes]
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A.
Christopher Wold Johnson
Christopher Wold Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson & Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
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B.
Roy Andrew Miller
Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.
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C.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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D.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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E.
Leonard Case Jr.
Leonard Case Jr. was a 19th-century American philanthropist and lawyer best known for endowing the technical school in Cleveland that evolved into Case Western Reserve University.
- 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 Curtis Estes Target entity description: John Curtis Estes is the birth name of John Holmes, a notorious American adult film actor who became one of the most famous pornographic performers of the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Christopher Wold Johnson
Christopher Wold Johnson is an American businessman and member of the Johnson & Johnson family who serves as a principal owner and executive of the New York Jets NFL franchise.
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B.
Roy Andrew Miller
Roy Andrew Miller was an American linguist renowned for his influential and controversial work on the proposed Altaic language family and for his broader contributions to East Asian linguistics.
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C.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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D.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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E.
Leonard Case Jr.
Leonard Case Jr. was a 19th-century American philanthropist and lawyer best known for endowing the technical school in Cleveland that evolved into Case Western Reserve University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1980s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| alias |
John Holmes
ⓘ
Johnny Wadd ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | John Holmes ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | AIDS-related complications ⓘ |
| changedNameTo |
John Curtis Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
John Holmes
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-08-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1988-03-13 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Estes ⓘ |
| genre | pornographic film ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Christianity (former) ⓘ |
| height | about 1.85 m ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Wonderland murders case (as an associate) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalName |
John Curtis Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
John Holmes
|
| name | John Curtis Estes ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | widely publicized large penis ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the most famous pornographic performers of the 1970s and 1980s ⓘ |
| notableWork | Johnny Wadd film series ⓘ |
| occupation |
adult film actor
ⓘ
pornographic film actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ashville, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Laurie Holmes
ⓘ
Sharon Holmes ⓘ |
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 Curtis Estes Description of subject: John Curtis Estes is the birth name of John Holmes, a notorious American adult film actor who became one of the most famous pornographic performers of the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.