Jimmy McCann
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Jimmy McCann is a character in Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.” who serves as a cautionary example of the extreme and sinister methods used by the company to enforce smoking cessation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy McCann canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8244098 — 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: Jimmy McCann Context triple: [Quitters, Inc., featuresCharacter, Jimmy McCann]
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A.
James McCann
James McCann is a business executive best known for serving as chairman of the global insurance brokerage and risk management firm Willis Group Holdings.
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B.
James Morris
James Morris is a music industry professional best known as the founder of Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios, a landmark recording facility used by numerous major artists.
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C.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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D.
Neil Callaghan
Neil Callaghan is a contemporary choreographer and performer known for his experimental and interdisciplinary work in dance and performance art.
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E.
Ren McCormack
Ren McCormack is the rebellious teenage protagonist of the musical drama "Footloose," known for challenging a small town's ban on dancing.
- 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: Jimmy McCann Target entity description: Jimmy McCann is a character in Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.” who serves as a cautionary example of the extreme and sinister methods used by the company to enforce smoking cessation.
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A.
James McCann
James McCann is a business executive best known for serving as chairman of the global insurance brokerage and risk management firm Willis Group Holdings.
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B.
James Morris
James Morris is a music industry professional best known as the founder of Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios, a landmark recording facility used by numerous major artists.
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C.
Paul McGinness
Paul McGinness was an Australian aviator and World War I flying ace best known as one of the co-founders of Qantas Airways.
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D.
Neil Callaghan
Neil Callaghan is a contemporary choreographer and performer known for his experimental and interdisciplinary work in dance and performance art.
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E.
Ren McCormack
Ren McCormack is the rebellious teenage protagonist of the musical drama "Footloose," known for challenging a small town's ban on dancing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Quitters, Inc. ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Quitters, Inc. ⓘ |
| authorOfWorkAppearsIn | Stephen King ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| enforcedBy | Quitters, Inc. ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Stephen King universe
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linked to:
Stephen King multiverse
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| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | horror fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
demonstrates consequences of violating Quitters, Inc. rules
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illustrates extreme enforcement methods ⓘ |
| occupation | client of Quitters, Inc. ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
cautionary example
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former smoker ⓘ |
| themeConnection |
addiction
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behavior modification ⓘ coercion ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
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: Jimmy McCann Description of subject: Jimmy McCann is a character in Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.” who serves as a cautionary example of the extreme and sinister methods used by the company to enforce smoking cessation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.