Jommy Cross
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Jommy Cross is the telepathic mutant protagonist of A. E. van Vogt’s science fiction novel "Slan," who represents a persecuted superhuman race in a hostile human society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jommy Cross canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8494081 — 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: Jommy Cross Context triple: [Slan, mainCharacter, Jommy Cross]
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A.
Harold Crick
Harold Crick is the meticulous IRS auditor and unsuspecting protagonist of the metafictional film "Stranger Than Fiction," whose life begins mirroring a narrated novel.
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B.
Augie Blunt
Augie Blunt was an American character actor known for supporting roles in film and television during the late 20th century.
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C.
Mac Wilkins
Mac Wilkins is an American discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist renowned for setting multiple world records in the 1970s.
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D.
Tom Sayers
Tom Sayers was a celebrated 19th-century English bare-knuckle prizefighter regarded as one of the greatest boxers of his era.
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E.
Jack Wilder
Jack Wilder is a street magician and escape artist who becomes one of the Four Horsemen illusionists in the heist thriller film "Now You See Me."
- 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: Jommy Cross Target entity description: Jommy Cross is the telepathic mutant protagonist of A. E. van Vogt’s science fiction novel "Slan," who represents a persecuted superhuman race in a hostile human society.
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A.
Harold Crick
Harold Crick is the meticulous IRS auditor and unsuspecting protagonist of the metafictional film "Stranger Than Fiction," whose life begins mirroring a narrated novel.
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B.
Augie Blunt
Augie Blunt was an American character actor known for supporting roles in film and television during the late 20th century.
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C.
Mac Wilkins
Mac Wilkins is an American discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist renowned for setting multiple world records in the 1970s.
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D.
Tom Sayers
Tom Sayers was a celebrated 19th-century English bare-knuckle prizefighter regarded as one of the greatest boxers of his era.
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E.
Jack Wilder
Jack Wilder is a street magician and escape artist who becomes one of the Four Horsemen illusionists in the heist thriller film "Now You See Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Slan
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ mutant ⓘ protagonist ⓘ telepath ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Slan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
John Petty
ⓘ
Kier Gray ⓘ |
| conflictWith | anti-Slan human government ⓘ |
| creator | A. E. van Vogt ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Slan (1940)
ⓘ
linked to:
Slan
|
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
superhuman intelligence
ⓘ
telepathy ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Cross ⓘ |
| hasFandom | science fiction fandom ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Jommy ⓘ |
| hasMother | Kathleen Layton ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalTrait | tendril-like appendages on his head ⓘ |
| influencedConcept | later depictions of telepathic mutants in SF ⓘ |
| isOrphaned | true ⓘ |
| isPersecutedBy | humans ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | a hostile human society ⓘ |
| memberOf | Slans ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
child prodigy
ⓘ
symbol of future human evolution ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | Earth human-derived ⓘ |
| primaryThemeRelation |
evolutionary superman concept
ⓘ
persecution of minorities ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | Astounding Science-Fiction (serialized) ⓘ |
| represents | a persecuted superhuman race ⓘ |
| setting | future Earth ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
misunderstood genius
ⓘ
oppressed minority ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Jommy Cross Description of subject: Jommy Cross is the telepathic mutant protagonist of A. E. van Vogt’s science fiction novel "Slan," who represents a persecuted superhuman race in a hostile human society.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.