John Tormey
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John Tormey is an American character actor best known for his supporting role in Jim Jarmusch’s crime film "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Tormey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6975597 — 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 Tormey Context triple: [Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, starring, John Tormey]
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A.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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B.
Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor Books.
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C.
Michael Costigan
Michael Costigan is a film and television producer known for his work on various high-profile projects, including serving as an executive producer on the miniseries "A Teacher."
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D.
Stephen McDermott
Stephen McDermott is an Irish Gaelic footballer known for playing at inter-county level for Donegal.
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E.
Don Carmody
Don Carmody is a prolific Canadian film producer known for his work on numerous commercially successful and cult-favorite films across genres.
- 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 Tormey Target entity description: John Tormey is an American character actor best known for his supporting role in Jim Jarmusch’s crime film "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai."
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A.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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B.
Tom Doherty
Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor Books.
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C.
Michael Costigan
Michael Costigan is a film and television producer known for his work on various high-profile projects, including serving as an executive producer on the miniseries "A Teacher."
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D.
Stephen McDermott
Stephen McDermott is an Irish Gaelic footballer known for playing at inter-county level for Donegal.
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E.
Don Carmody
Don Carmody is a prolific Canadian film producer known for his work on numerous commercially successful and cult-favorite films across genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character actor
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film ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| director | Jim Jarmusch ⓘ |
| employer | film industry ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | crime film ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | crime film ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Tormey ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | John ⓘ |
| hasRole | supporting role in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ |
| workedOn | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ⓘ |
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 Tormey Description of subject: John Tormey is an American character actor best known for his supporting role in Jim Jarmusch’s crime film "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.