Jim Shea
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Jim Shea is an American skeleton racer best known for winning the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Shea Jr. | 5 |
| Jim Shea canonical | 1 |
| Jim Shea Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9355990 — 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 Shea Context triple: [United States at the 2002 Winter Olympics, notableAthlete, Jim Shea]
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A.
Loren Long
Loren Long is an American children's book illustrator and author known for his richly detailed, nostalgic artwork in popular picture books and collaborations with prominent writers.
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B.
Lane Smith
Lane Smith was an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, including portrayals of authoritative and often gruff figures.
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C.
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist, illustrator, and author best known for his distinctive picture books and visual storytelling.
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D.
Christopher Hart
Christopher Hart is a magician and actor best known for portraying the disembodied hand "Thing" in the 1991 film adaptation of The Addams Family and its sequels.
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E.
Angela C. Santomero
Angela C. Santomero is a television producer and writer best known for creating influential educational children's shows such as Blue's Clues and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
- 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 Shea Target entity description: Jim Shea is an American skeleton racer best known for winning the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
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A.
Loren Long
Loren Long is an American children's book illustrator and author known for his richly detailed, nostalgic artwork in popular picture books and collaborations with prominent writers.
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B.
Lane Smith
Lane Smith was an American character actor known for his roles in film and television, including portrayals of authoritative and often gruff figures.
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C.
Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers is a Northern Irish artist, illustrator, and author best known for his distinctive picture books and visual storytelling.
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D.
Christopher Hart
Christopher Hart is a magician and actor best known for portraying the disembodied hand "Thing" in the 1991 film adaptation of The Addams Family and its sequels.
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E.
Angela C. Santomero
Angela C. Santomero is a television producer and writer best known for creating influential educational children's shows such as Blue's Clues and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athlete
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human ⓘ skeleton racer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ |
| competitionClass | men's skeleton ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-06-10 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Shea ⓘ |
| father | Jim Shea Sr. ⓘ |
| fullName | James Edmound Shea Jr. ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| grandfather | Jack Shea ⓘ |
| hasRelativeWhoWasOlympian |
Jack Shea
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Jim Shea Sr. ⓘ |
| height | approximately 1.80 m ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | coverage in Olympic history documentaries ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medal |
Olympic gold medal
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gold medal ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | United States Olympic skeleton team ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
competed on home soil at Salt Lake City 2002
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first American to win Olympic gold in skeleton ⓘ |
| notableFor | carrying a photo of his late grandfather in his helmet during the 2002 Olympic competition ⓘ |
| notableWork | winning the men's skeleton gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| occupation |
Nordic combined skier
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skeleton racer ⓘ speed skater ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 2002 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| representativeFor | United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | Park City, Utah ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | skeleton ⓘ |
| weight | approximately 80 kg ⓘ |
| wonMedal | gold medal in men's skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
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 Shea Description of subject: Jim Shea is an American skeleton racer best known for winning the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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