Terry Doolittle
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Terry Doolittle is the witty, resourceful New York bank employee and amateur codebreaker played by Whoopi Goldberg in the 1986 spy-comedy film "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Terry Doolittle canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2834796 — 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: Terry Doolittle Context triple: [Jumpin' Jack Flash, character, Terry Doolittle]
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A.
Terry Hartford
Terry Hartford is a fictional character from the American prime-time television soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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B.
George Devine
George Devine was a British theatre director, actor, and influential artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, known for championing new writing in mid-20th-century British drama.
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C.
Red Whittaker
Red Whittaker is a pioneering American roboticist known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics, autonomous vehicles, and planetary exploration systems.
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D.
Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet known for his witty, urbane writing and popular works in early 20th-century literature.
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E.
Terry Tumey
Terry Tumey is an American college athletics administrator and former UCLA football player and NFL defensive lineman who serves as the athletic director at Fresno State.
- 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: Terry Doolittle Target entity description: Terry Doolittle is the witty, resourceful New York bank employee and amateur codebreaker played by Whoopi Goldberg in the 1986 spy-comedy film "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
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A.
Terry Hartford
Terry Hartford is a fictional character from the American prime-time television soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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B.
George Devine
George Devine was a British theatre director, actor, and influential artistic director of the Royal Court Theatre, known for championing new writing in mid-20th-century British drama.
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C.
Red Whittaker
Red Whittaker is a pioneering American roboticist known for his groundbreaking work in field robotics, autonomous vehicles, and planetary exploration systems.
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D.
Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet known for his witty, urbane writing and popular works in early 20th-century literature.
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E.
Terry Tumey
Terry Tumey is an American college athletics administrator and former UCLA football player and NFL defensive lineman who serves as the athletic director at Fresno State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Jumpin' Jack Flash ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
The Rolling Stones song "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
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linked to:
Jumpin' Jack Flash
banking ⓘ espionage ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
brave
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curious ⓘ loyal ⓘ resourceful ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| createdFor | Jumpin' Jack Flash ⓘ |
| employer | Manhattan bank ⓘ |
| filmTitle | Jumpin' Jack Flash ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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spy comedy ⓘ spy film ⓘ |
| humorStyle | quick-witted banter ⓘ |
| inUniverseStatus | civilian ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Terry Doolittle ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
becoming involved in an international espionage plot
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decoding a mysterious message from a British spy ⓘ |
| occupation |
bank employee
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codebreaker ⓘ computer operator ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Whoopi Goldberg ⓘ |
| residence |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ |
| riskLevel | high personal danger due to espionage involvement ⓘ |
| setting |
1980s New York City
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Cold War era ⓘ
linked to:
Cold War
|
| uses |
computer terminal
ⓘ
cryptographic skills ⓘ |
| worksWith | computers ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1986 ⓘ |
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: Terry Doolittle Description of subject: Terry Doolittle is the witty, resourceful New York bank employee and amateur codebreaker played by Whoopi Goldberg in the 1986 spy-comedy film "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.