James Cole
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James Cole is a filmmaker known for directing the adaptation of Stephen King’s short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Cole canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8244211 — 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: James Cole Context triple: [The Last Rung on the Ladder, adaptationDirector, James Cole]
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A.
James Cole
James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
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B.
John Clark
John Clark is a former Scottish footballer best known as a vital member of Celtic FC’s legendary 1967 European Cup–winning "Lisbon Lions" team.
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C.
John Clark
John Clark is a jazz French horn player best known for his work in fusion and contemporary jazz ensembles, including his tenure with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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D.
Matt Kowalski
Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
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E.
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson was a 19th-century British mountaineer and Anglican clergyman known for his pioneering ascents in the Alps.
- 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: James Cole Target entity description: James Cole is a filmmaker known for directing the adaptation of Stephen King’s short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder."
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A.
James Cole
James Cole is the time-traveling convict protagonist of the science fiction film and TV series "12 Monkeys," tasked with preventing a devastating global plague.
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B.
John Clark
John Clark is a former Scottish footballer best known as a vital member of Celtic FC’s legendary 1967 European Cup–winning "Lisbon Lions" team.
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C.
John Clark
John Clark is a jazz French horn player best known for his work in fusion and contemporary jazz ensembles, including his tenure with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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D.
Matt Kowalski
Matt Kowalski is a veteran NASA astronaut and spacewalker featured as a central character in the science fiction film "Gravity."
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E.
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson was a 19th-century British mountaineer and Anglican clergyman known for his pioneering ascents in the Alps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Last Rung on the Ladder (short story)
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linked to:
"The Last Rung on the Ladder" (short story)
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| directed |
The Last Rung on the Ladder (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Last Rung on the Ladder
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| knownFor | directing the film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Last Rung on the Ladder" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Last Rung on the Ladder (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Last Rung on the Ladder
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| occupation | film director ⓘ |
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: James Cole Description of subject: James Cole is a filmmaker known for directing the adaptation of Stephen King’s short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.