John Parr
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John Parr is an English rock singer and musician best known for his 1985 hit single "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" from the film of the same name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Parr canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6814081 — 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 Parr Context triple: [St. Elmo's Fire, notableSongPerformer, John Parr]
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A.
Clifton James
Clifton James was an American character actor best known for his comic portrayals of Southern lawmen in films such as the James Bond movies Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun.
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B.
Martin Bladen
Martin Bladen was an 18th-century British politician and colonial administrator whose influence in imperial affairs led to places such as Bladen County, North Carolina being named in his honor.
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C.
Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey was a British film editor and director best known for his acclaimed work on the historical drama "The Lion in Winter."
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D.
Lyndon Ogbourne
Lyndon Ogbourne is a British actor best known for his role as Nathan Wylde in the ITV soap opera "Emmerdale."
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E.
Sam Farrar
Sam Farrar is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a touring and later official member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
- 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 Parr Target entity description: John Parr is an English rock singer and musician best known for his 1985 hit single "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" from the film of the same name.
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A.
Clifton James
Clifton James was an American character actor best known for his comic portrayals of Southern lawmen in films such as the James Bond movies Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun.
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B.
Martin Bladen
Martin Bladen was an 18th-century British politician and colonial administrator whose influence in imperial affairs led to places such as Bladen County, North Carolina being named in his honor.
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C.
Anthony Harvey
Anthony Harvey was a British film editor and director best known for his acclaimed work on the historical drama "The Lion in Winter."
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D.
Lyndon Ogbourne
Lyndon Ogbourne is a British actor best known for his role as Nathan Wylde in the ITV soap opera "Emmerdale."
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E.
Sam Farrar
Sam Farrar is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a touring and later official member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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 Parr Description of subject: John Parr is an English rock singer and musician best known for his 1985 hit single "St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" from the film of the same name.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.