Dr. James Wilson
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Dr. James Wilson is a compassionate oncologist and the best friend and moral counterbalance to the brilliant but abrasive diagnostician Dr. Gregory House on the television series "House."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. James Wilson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3871511 — 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: Dr. James Wilson Context triple: [House, hasCharacter, Dr. James Wilson]
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A.
Dr. Gregory House
Dr. Gregory House is the brilliant but misanthropic diagnostician and central character of the medical drama series "House," known for his unconventional methods, sharp wit, and reliance on a cane and pain medication.
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B.
Dr. Woodward
Dr. Woodward is a mysterious biology teacher whose secretive actions and knowledge about a catastrophic train crash drive much of the suspense in the science-fiction film "Super 8."
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C.
Dr. James Harvey
Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
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D.
Dr. John Prentice
Dr. John Prentice is the accomplished, idealistic Black physician whose interracial relationship with a white woman drives the central social and moral conflict in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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E.
Charles Janeway Jr.
Charles Janeway Jr. was a pioneering American immunologist whose work helped establish modern immunology, particularly through his insights into innate immunity and his influential textbook "Immunobiology."
- 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: Dr. James Wilson Target entity description: Dr. James Wilson is a compassionate oncologist and the best friend and moral counterbalance to the brilliant but abrasive diagnostician Dr. Gregory House on the television series "House."
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A.
Dr. Gregory House
Dr. Gregory House is the brilliant but misanthropic diagnostician and central character of the medical drama series "House," known for his unconventional methods, sharp wit, and reliance on a cane and pain medication.
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B.
Dr. Woodward
Dr. Woodward is a mysterious biology teacher whose secretive actions and knowledge about a catastrophic train crash drive much of the suspense in the science-fiction film "Super 8."
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C.
Dr. James Harvey
Dr. James Harvey is a widowed paranormal therapist and the caring, if somewhat bumbling, father of Kat Harvey in the 1995 family fantasy film "Casper."
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D.
Dr. John Prentice
Dr. John Prentice is the accomplished, idealistic Black physician whose interracial relationship with a white woman drives the central social and moral conflict in the film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."
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E.
Charles Janeway Jr.
Charles Janeway Jr. was a pioneering American immunologist whose work helped establish modern immunology, particularly through his insights into innate immunity and his influential textbook "Immunobiology."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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oncologist ⓘ physician ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | House ⓘ |
| basedInFictionalPlace |
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton‑Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
|
| closeRelationshipWith |
Dr. Eric Foreman
ⓘ
Dr. Lisa Cuddy ⓘ Dr. Robert Chase ⓘ |
| creator | David Shore ⓘ |
| department | Oncology ⓘ |
| employer |
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton‑Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
|
| firstAppearance |
Pilot (House)
ⓘ
linked to:
House M.D.
|
| friendOf | Dr. Gregory House ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasEthicalRole | moral counterbalance to Dr. House ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
emotionally supportive
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self-sacrificing ⓘ skilled clinician ⓘ |
| homeMedium | television ⓘ |
| knownFor |
compassion toward patients
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loyalty to Dr. House ⓘ willingness to enable House’s behavior ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalHistory | multiple divorces ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | television series ⓘ |
| moralCounterpartOf | Dr. Gregory House ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | Fox ⓘ |
| networkCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| occupation |
doctor
ⓘ
head of the Department of Oncology ⓘ oncologist ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
altruistic
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compassionate ⓘ conflict-averse ⓘ empathetic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Robert Sean Leonard ⓘ |
| roleInSeries |
best friend of Dr. Gregory House
ⓘ
moral center of the series ⓘ |
| seriesEndYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| seriesGenre | medical drama ⓘ |
| seriesStartYear | 2004 ⓘ |
| setting |
New Jersey
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| specialty | oncology ⓘ |
| storyArc | diagnosed with cancer in later seasons ⓘ |
| title | Head of Oncology ⓘ |
| treats | cancer patients ⓘ |
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: Dr. James Wilson Description of subject: Dr. James Wilson is a compassionate oncologist and the best friend and moral counterbalance to the brilliant but abrasive diagnostician Dr. Gregory House on the television series "House."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.