Jim Whitlock
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Jim Whitlock is a scientist in the shark-thriller film "Deep Blue Sea" whose risky genetic experiments on sharks help trigger the movie’s deadly events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Whitlock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7950623 — 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: Jim Whitlock Context triple: [Deep Blue Sea, character, Jim Whitlock]
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A.
Ryan Johansen
Ryan Johansen is a Canadian professional ice hockey center who has played in the NHL for teams including the Columbus Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators.
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B.
Bryan Woods
Bryan Woods is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the hit horror film "A Quiet Place."
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C.
Austin Winkler
Austin Winkler is an American rock singer best known as the former lead vocalist and founding member of the band Hinder.
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D.
Kevin Jorgeson
Kevin Jorgeson is an American rock climber best known for his groundbreaking big-wall free climbs, including the historic first free ascent of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall with Tommy Caldwell.
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E.
Dane Krager
Dane Krager is an American indoor football executive and former player who serves as the general manager of the Frisco Fighters in the Indoor Football League.
- 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: Jim Whitlock Target entity description: Jim Whitlock is a scientist in the shark-thriller film "Deep Blue Sea" whose risky genetic experiments on sharks help trigger the movie’s deadly events.
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A.
Ryan Johansen
Ryan Johansen is a Canadian professional ice hockey center who has played in the NHL for teams including the Columbus Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators.
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B.
Bryan Woods
Bryan Woods is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the hit horror film "A Quiet Place."
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C.
Austin Winkler
Austin Winkler is an American rock singer best known as the former lead vocalist and founding member of the band Hinder.
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D.
Kevin Jorgeson
Kevin Jorgeson is an American rock climber best known for his groundbreaking big-wall free climbs, including the historic first free ascent of Yosemite’s Dawn Wall with Tommy Caldwell.
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E.
Dane Krager
Dane Krager is an American indoor football executive and former player who serves as the general manager of the Frisco Fighters in the Indoor Football League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| alignment | morally ambiguous scientist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Deep Blue Sea ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
science fiction horror film
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shark thriller film ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1999 film ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Carter Blake
ⓘ
Russell Franklin ⓘ Susan McAlester ⓘ Tom Scoggins ⓘ |
| causeOf |
events leading to deadly shark attacks
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increased intelligence in test sharks ⓘ sharks becoming more dangerous ⓘ |
| conducts | genetic experiments on sharks ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Renny Harlin ⓘ |
| createdForWork | Deep Blue Sea ⓘ |
| employer | Aquatica research facility ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
genetic engineering
ⓘ
medical research ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | creature feature ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| motivation |
curing Alzheimer’s disease
ⓘ
scientific breakthrough ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
scientist whose work triggers the main conflict
ⓘ
supporting character ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
attacked by a shark at Aquatica
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used in a dramatic shark attack scene involving a stretcher ⓘ |
| occupation | scientist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Stellan Skarsgård ⓘ |
| researchGoal | increase shark brain tissue for Alzheimer’s treatment ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | underwater research facility Aquatica ⓘ |
| speciesStudied | shark ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
illegal genetic protocol
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risky experimental procedures ⓘ |
| worksOn | Alzheimer's disease research ⓘ |
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: Jim Whitlock Description of subject: Jim Whitlock is a scientist in the shark-thriller film "Deep Blue Sea" whose risky genetic experiments on sharks help trigger the movie’s deadly events.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.