Nick Thurston
E440033
Nick Thurston is an American actor best known for his role as the chimpanzee Blue Eyes in the science fiction film "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nick Thurston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4101035 — 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: Nick Thurston Context triple: [Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, starring, Nick Thurston]
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A.
Ken Thorne
Ken Thorne was a British composer and Oscar-winning film scorer known for his work on major films including entries in the Superman series.
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B.
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston is an Australian linguist renowned for his pioneering research and documentation of Auslan, the sign language of the Australian Deaf community.
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C.
Brian Routh
Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
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D.
Ken Hutchison
Ken Hutchison was a Scottish actor known for his intense character roles in film and television during the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Scott Thorson
Scott Thorson is best known as the former lover of entertainer Liberace, whose relationship and legal battle with the performer were dramatized in the film "Behind the Candelabra."
- 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: Nick Thurston Target entity description: Nick Thurston is an American actor best known for his role as the chimpanzee Blue Eyes in the science fiction film "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes."
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A.
Ken Thorne
Ken Thorne was a British composer and Oscar-winning film scorer known for his work on major films including entries in the Superman series.
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B.
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston is an Australian linguist renowned for his pioneering research and documentation of Auslan, the sign language of the Australian Deaf community.
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C.
Brian Routh
Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
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D.
Ken Hutchison
Ken Hutchison was a Scottish actor known for his intense character roles in film and television during the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Scott Thorson
Scott Thorson is best known as the former lover of entertainer Liberace, whose relationship and legal battle with the performer were dramatized in the film "Behind the Candelabra."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| characterIn | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | performing arts ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
motion capture performance
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voice acting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | feature film ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying the chimpanzee Blue Eyes in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf |
Planet of the Apes film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Planet of the Apes franchise
|
| role | Blue Eyes ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Nick Thurston Description of subject: Nick Thurston is an American actor best known for his role as the chimpanzee Blue Eyes in the science fiction film "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.