John Irvin
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John Irvin is a British film director known for his work on war and action dramas, including the 1980 mercenary film "The Dogs of War."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Irvin canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859823 — 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 Irvin Context triple: [The Dogs of War, director, John Irvin]
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A.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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B.
Richard Maibaum
Richard Maibaum was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long-running work on the James Bond film series.
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C.
John Irwin
John Irwin is a television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on major late-night talk shows, including The Jay Leno Show.
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D.
Richard Langer
Richard Langer is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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E.
Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
- 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 Irvin Target entity description: John Irvin is a British film director known for his work on war and action dramas, including the 1980 mercenary film "The Dogs of War."
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A.
Russell Carpenter
Russell Carpenter is an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer best known for his work on major films such as Titanic and other high-profile Hollywood productions.
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B.
Richard Maibaum
Richard Maibaum was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long-running work on the James Bond film series.
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C.
John Irwin
John Irwin is a television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on major late-night talk shows, including The Jay Leno Show.
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D.
Richard Langer
Richard Langer is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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E.
Kevin Kiner
Kevin Kiner is an American composer best known for his prolific work on film and television scores, including major franchises like Star Wars and DC Comics adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ television miniseries ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
City of Industry
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Ghost Story ⓘ Hamburger Hill ⓘ Next of Kin ⓘ Raw Deal ⓘ Shiner ⓘ The Dogs of War ⓘ The Garden of Eden ⓘ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⓘ
linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film)
Turtle Diary ⓘ Widows ⓘ |
| director | John Irvin ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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crime drama ⓘ horror film ⓘ spy drama ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| notableWork |
City of Industry
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Ghost Story ⓘ Hamburger Hill ⓘ Next of Kin ⓘ Raw Deal ⓘ Shiner ⓘ The Dogs of War ⓘ The Garden of Eden ⓘ Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ⓘ
linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film)
Turtle Diary ⓘ Widows ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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television director ⓘ |
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 Irvin Description of subject: John Irvin is a British film director known for his work on war and action dramas, including the 1980 mercenary film "The Dogs of War."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.