Richard Adams
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Richard Adams is a fictional television news cameraman in the 1979 nuclear-accident thriller film "The China Syndrome."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Adams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10355098 — 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: Richard Adams Context triple: [The China Syndrome, character, Richard Adams]
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A.
Richard Adams
Richard Adams was an English novelist best known for his classic animal fantasy novel "Watership Down."
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B.
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame was a British writer best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows," which has inspired numerous adaptations in literature and film.
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C.
Charles Foster
Charles Foster is one of the children of acclaimed American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
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D.
Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson was an English author and naturalist best known for his novel "Tarka the Otter" and his evocative writings about the English countryside.
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E.
Walter Farley
Walter Farley was an American author best known for his popular "Black Stallion" series of children's horse novels.
- 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: Richard Adams Target entity description: Richard Adams is a fictional television news cameraman in the 1979 nuclear-accident thriller film "The China Syndrome."
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A.
Richard Adams
Richard Adams was an English novelist best known for his classic animal fantasy novel "Watership Down."
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B.
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame was a British writer best known for his classic children’s novel "The Wind in the Willows," which has inspired numerous adaptations in literature and film.
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C.
Charles Foster
Charles Foster is one of the children of acclaimed American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
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D.
Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson was an English author and naturalist best known for his novel "Tarka the Otter" and his evocative writings about the English countryside.
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E.
Walter Farley
Walter Farley was an American author best known for his popular "Black Stallion" series of children's horse novels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The China Syndrome ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
nuclear power plant accident coverage
ⓘ
television news reporting ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | The China Syndrome ⓘ |
| depictsProfession | news cameraman ⓘ |
| genre |
nuclear-accident thriller
ⓘ
thriller film ⓘ |
| hasFictionalStatus | non-real person ⓘ |
| hasRoleInPlot | documents events related to a nuclear power plant incident ⓘ |
| isFictional | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeUniverse |
The China Syndrome universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The China Syndrome
|
| occupation |
cameraman
ⓘ
television news cameraman ⓘ |
| partOf | television news team in The China Syndrome ⓘ |
| primaryMediumOfAppearance | cinema ⓘ |
| publicationType | motion picture ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
nuclear power plant
ⓘ
television newsroom ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1979 ⓘ |
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: Richard Adams Description of subject: Richard Adams is a fictional television news cameraman in the 1979 nuclear-accident thriller film "The China Syndrome."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.