John Nolan
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John Nolan is a British actor best known for his recurring role as John Greer on the television series "Person of Interest" and for his appearances in several films directed by his nephew Christopher Nolan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Nolan canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2221856 — 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 Nolan Context triple: [Nolan, hasNotableBearer, John Nolan]
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A.
Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan is a British-American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for co-creating the TV series "Westworld" and writing screenplays for films such as "The Dark Knight" and "Interstellar."
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B.
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is a British-American filmmaker renowned for his intellectually ambitious, visually striking blockbusters such as Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Interstellar.
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C.
Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing the Bourne film series and directing the acclaimed thriller "Michael Clayton."
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D.
Josh Singer
Josh Singer is an American screenwriter known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Spotlight" and "The Post," often focusing on journalism and real-life events.
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E.
David Fincher
David Fincher is an acclaimed American film director and producer known for his dark, stylish thrillers such as Se7en, Fight Club, and The Social Network.
- 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 Nolan Target entity description: John Nolan is a British actor best known for his recurring role as John Greer on the television series "Person of Interest" and for his appearances in several films directed by his nephew Christopher Nolan.
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A.
Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan is a British-American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for co-creating the TV series "Westworld" and writing screenplays for films such as "The Dark Knight" and "Interstellar."
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B.
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is a British-American filmmaker renowned for his intellectually ambitious, visually striking blockbusters such as Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Interstellar.
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C.
Tony Gilroy
Tony Gilroy is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for writing the Bourne film series and directing the acclaimed thriller "Michael Clayton."
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D.
Josh Singer
Josh Singer is an American screenwriter known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Spotlight" and "The Post," often focusing on journalism and real-life events.
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E.
David Fincher
David Fincher is an acclaimed American film director and producer known for his dark, stylish thrillers such as Se7en, Fight Club, and The Social Network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Batman Begins
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Dunkirk ⓘ Following ⓘ Memento ⓘ Person of Interest ⓘ The Dark Knight Rises ⓘ The Prestige ⓘ |
| characterIn | Person of Interest ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAssociated |
crime drama television series
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science fiction television series ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearances in films directed by Christopher Nolan
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recurring role as John Greer on Person of Interest ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | John Nolan ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole | John Greer ⓘ |
| notableWork | Person of Interest ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| relative |
Christopher Nolan
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Jonathan Nolan ⓘ |
| spouse | Kim Hartman ⓘ |
| uncleOf |
Christopher Nolan
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Jonathan Nolan ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United Kingdom
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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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 Nolan Description of subject: John Nolan is a British actor best known for his recurring role as John Greer on the television series "Person of Interest" and for his appearances in several films directed by his nephew Christopher Nolan.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Rookie (TV series)
subject linked to:
black-and-white neo-noir film "Following"