Jim Edgar
E248438
Jim Edgar is an American Republican politician who served as the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jim Edgar canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2148464 — 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: Jim Edgar Context triple: [James R. Thompson, succeededBy, Jim Edgar]
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A.
Jack Edwards
Jack Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards.
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B.
Jack Edwards
Jack Edwards is one of the children of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards.
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C.
Russell Boyd
Russell Boyd is an acclaimed Australian cinematographer best known for his work on films such as "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," for which he won an Academy Award.
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D.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
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E.
Alan McMichael
Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
- 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: Jim Edgar Target entity description: Jim Edgar is an American Republican politician who served as the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999.
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A.
Jack Edwards
Jack Edwards is known primarily as the son of Austrian-American character actor Snitz Edwards.
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B.
Jack Edwards
Jack Edwards is one of the children of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential nominee John Edwards.
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C.
Russell Boyd
Russell Boyd is an acclaimed Australian cinematographer best known for his work on films such as "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," for which he won an Academy Award.
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D.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
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E.
Alan McMichael
Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Jim Edgar Description of subject: Jim Edgar is an American Republican politician who served as the 38th governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.