Jack Godell
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Jack Godell is the fictional nuclear power plant shift supervisor in the film "The China Syndrome" who becomes a whistleblower after discovering serious safety issues at his facility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Godell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10355097 — 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: Jack Godell Context triple: [The China Syndrome, character, Jack Godell]
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A.
Robert Morton
Robert Morton is an American television producer best known for his work as executive producer of the late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman."
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B.
Peter Dobson
Peter Dobson is an American actor known for his work in film and television, particularly in character roles during the 1990s.
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C.
Joseph Arnold
Joseph Arnold was a British surgeon and naturalist from the early 19th century, best known for his role in the discovery of the giant parasitic flower later named Rafflesia arnoldii.
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D.
John Victor-Smith
John Victor-Smith is a film editor best known for his work on major feature films including the superhero movie "Superman III."
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E.
Donald Wolfit
Donald Wolfit was a renowned English stage and film actor, particularly celebrated for his Shakespearean performances and his powerful, often larger-than-life acting style.
- 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: Jack Godell Target entity description: Jack Godell is the fictional nuclear power plant shift supervisor in the film "The China Syndrome" who becomes a whistleblower after discovering serious safety issues at his facility.
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A.
Robert Morton
Robert Morton is an American television producer best known for his work as executive producer of the late-night talk show "Late Night with David Letterman."
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B.
Peter Dobson
Peter Dobson is an American actor known for his work in film and television, particularly in character roles during the 1990s.
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C.
Joseph Arnold
Joseph Arnold was a British surgeon and naturalist from the early 19th century, best known for his role in the discovery of the giant parasitic flower later named Rafflesia arnoldii.
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D.
John Victor-Smith
John Victor-Smith is a film editor best known for his work on major feature films including the superhero movie "Superman III."
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E.
Donald Wolfit
Donald Wolfit was a renowned English stage and film actor, particularly celebrated for his Shakespearean performances and his powerful, often larger-than-life acting style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The China Syndrome ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
corporate negligence
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nuclear safety ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | The China Syndrome ⓘ |
| discovers | serious safety issues at his nuclear facility ⓘ |
| employer | Ventana nuclear power plant ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
The China Syndrome universe
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linked to:
The China Syndrome
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| firstAppearance | The China Syndrome ⓘ |
| genreContext |
drama
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thriller ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | principled ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | raising concerns about nuclear plant safety ⓘ |
| occupation | nuclear power plant shift supervisor ⓘ |
| opposes | management cover-up of safety problems ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jack Lemmon ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | whistleblower ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
corporate accountability
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industrial safety ⓘ whistleblowing ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1979 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jack Godell Description of subject: Jack Godell is the fictional nuclear power plant shift supervisor in the film "The China Syndrome" who becomes a whistleblower after discovering serious safety issues at his facility.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.