James King
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James King is the wealthy, naive investment banker portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Get Hard," who must prepare for an impending prison sentence with the help of his car washer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James King canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10836820 — 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 King Context triple: [Get Hard, mainCharacter, James King]
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A.
James King
James King was an 18th-century British naval officer and explorer who helped complete and edit the published account of Captain James Cook’s final Pacific voyage.
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B.
Edward King
Edward King is a writer best known for authoring the work associated with the title "All Summer Long."
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C.
Cyril Emmanuel King
Cyril Emmanuel King was a prominent U.S. Virgin Islands politician who served as the territory’s second elected governor in the 1970s.
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D.
Robert King
Robert King is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the acclaimed legal and political drama series "The Good Wife."
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E.
Mark King
Mark King is a musician best known as the lead vocalist and bassist of the British jazz-funk band Level 42.
- 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 King Target entity description: James King is the wealthy, naive investment banker portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Get Hard," who must prepare for an impending prison sentence with the help of his car washer.
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A.
James King
James King was an 18th-century British naval officer and explorer who helped complete and edit the published account of Captain James Cook’s final Pacific voyage.
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B.
Edward King
Edward King is a writer best known for authoring the work associated with the title "All Summer Long."
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C.
Cyril Emmanuel King
Cyril Emmanuel King was a prominent U.S. Virgin Islands politician who served as the territory’s second elected governor in the 1970s.
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D.
Robert King
Robert King is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the acclaimed legal and political drama series "The Good Wife."
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E.
Mark King
Mark King is a musician best known as the lead vocalist and bassist of the British jazz-funk band Level 42.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Get Hard ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
stock trading
ⓘ
white-collar crime ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
naive
ⓘ
wealthy ⓘ |
| chargedWith | fraud ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Get Hard ⓘ |
| employer | Barrow Funds ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Get Hard (2015 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Get Hard
|
| genreOfWork | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasCarWasher | Darnell Lewis ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Alissa Barrow ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | comic attempts to toughen up for prison ⓘ |
| occupation | investment banker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Will Ferrell ⓘ |
| preparesFor | prison ⓘ |
| relationshipType | future father-in-law ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Martin Barrow ⓘ |
| residence | Beverly Hills mansion ⓘ |
| seeksHelpFrom | Darnell Lewis ⓘ |
| sentencedTo | 10 years in San Quentin State Prison ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
class differences
ⓘ
racial stereotypes ⓘ redemption arc ⓘ |
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 King Description of subject: James King is the wealthy, naive investment banker portrayed by Will Ferrell in the comedy film "Get Hard," who must prepare for an impending prison sentence with the help of his car washer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.