John Wood
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John Wood was a British actor active in the early 20th century who appeared in films such as the 1935 historical drama "The Last Days of Pompeii."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Wood canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6815633 — 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 Wood Context triple: [The Last Days of Pompeii (1935 film), castMember, John Wood]
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A.
John Wood
John Wood was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including roles in films such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "WarGames."
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B.
George Tyler Wood
George Tyler Wood was an American politician who served as the second governor of the state of Texas from 1847 to 1849.
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C.
Harry Woods
Harry Woods was an American character actor best known for his prolific portrayals of villains in numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s.
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D.
Jim Harper
Jim Harper is a principled and idealistic senior producer and reporter on the HBO drama series "The Newsroom," known for his integrity, journalistic rigor, and complicated romantic entanglements.
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E.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur and game developer best known as the founder of the video game company Bethesda Softworks.
- 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 Wood Target entity description: John Wood was a British actor active in the early 20th century who appeared in films such as the 1935 historical drama "The Last Days of Pompeii."
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A.
John Wood
John Wood was a British character actor known for his distinguished stage and screen career, including roles in films such as "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "WarGames."
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B.
George Tyler Wood
George Tyler Wood was an American politician who served as the second governor of the state of Texas from 1847 to 1849.
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C.
Harry Woods
Harry Woods was an American character actor best known for his prolific portrayals of villains in numerous Hollywood films from the silent era through the 1950s.
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D.
Jim Harper
Jim Harper is a principled and idealistic senior producer and reporter on the HBO drama series "The Newsroom," known for his integrity, journalistic rigor, and complicated romantic entanglements.
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E.
Christopher Weaver
Christopher Weaver is an American entrepreneur and game developer best known as the founder of the video game company Bethesda Softworks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Last Days of Pompeii
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935 film)
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linked to:
The Last Days of Pompeii
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| occupation | actor ⓘ |
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 Wood Description of subject: John Wood was a British actor active in the early 20th century who appeared in films such as the 1935 historical drama "The Last Days of Pompeii."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Last Days of Pompeii