Le Chiffre
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Le Chiffre is a notorious villain in the James Bond universe, best known as the primary antagonist and high-stakes gambler in Ian Fleming’s novel and its film adaptations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Chiffre canonical | 17 |
| Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T864529 — 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: Le Chiffre Context triple: [Casino Royale, featuresCharacter, Le Chiffre]
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A.
George Smiley
George Smiley is a quiet, brilliant British intelligence officer in John le Carré’s spy novels, known for his understated demeanor, moral complexity, and skill at uncovering traitors within the secret service.
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B.
William Parcher
William Parcher is a mysterious, menacing government agent who appears as a figment of John Nash’s delusions in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
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C.
James Bond
James Bond is a fictional British secret agent, code-named 007, known for his espionage missions, suave demeanor, and presence in a long-running series of novels and films.
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D.
James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton was a prominent American intelligence officer best known for serving as the long-time chief of counterintelligence at the CIA during the Cold War.
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E.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
- 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: Le Chiffre Target entity description: Le Chiffre is a notorious villain in the James Bond universe, best known as the primary antagonist and high-stakes gambler in Ian Fleming’s novel and its film adaptations.
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A.
George Smiley
George Smiley is a quiet, brilliant British intelligence officer in John le Carré’s spy novels, known for his understated demeanor, moral complexity, and skill at uncovering traitors within the secret service.
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B.
William Parcher
William Parcher is a mysterious, menacing government agent who appears as a figment of John Nash’s delusions in the film "A Beautiful Mind."
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C.
James Bond
James Bond is a fictional British secret agent, code-named 007, known for his espionage missions, suave demeanor, and presence in a long-running series of novels and films.
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D.
James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton was a prominent American intelligence officer best known for serving as the long-time chief of counterintelligence at the CIA during the Cold War.
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E.
Roland Caulder
Roland Caulder is an actor known for his role in the film "The Iron Mask."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
James Bond villain
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
SMERSH (in the novel)
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Soviet intelligence (in the novel) ⓘ terrorist financiers (in the 2006 film) ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Casino Royale (1953 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Casino Royale
Casino Royale (1954 TV adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Casino Royale (1954 TV production)
Casino Royale (1967 film) ⓘ Casino Royale (2006 film) ⓘ Casino Royale (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
Casino Royale
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| basedOn | Cold War-era espionage archetypes ⓘ |
| creator | Ian Fleming ⓘ |
| enemyOf | James Bond ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown (2006 film depiction) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Casino Royale (1953)
ⓘ
linked to:
Casino Royale
|
| franchise | James Bond ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlias | The Number (literal translation of name) ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Mr. White (in the 2006 film)
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SMERSH agent (in the novel) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| method |
market manipulation (in the 2006 film)
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using high-stakes card games to recover lost funds ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | "the number" in French ⓘ |
| nationality | French (in the novel) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high-stakes gambling
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mathematical skill ⓘ torturing James Bond ⓘ |
| occupation |
criminal
ⓘ
financier ⓘ gambler ⓘ |
| physicalCharacteristic |
scar over left eye (2006 film depiction)
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weeping blood from damaged eye (2006 film depiction) ⓘ |
| playsGame |
Texas hold 'em poker (in the 2006 film)
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baccarat (in the novel) ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Mads Mikkelsen
ⓘ
Michael Pate ⓘ Orson Welles ⓘ Peter Lorre ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
primary antagonist in Casino Royale (2006 film)
ⓘ
primary antagonist in Casino Royale (novel) ⓘ |
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: Le Chiffre Description of subject: Le Chiffre is a notorious villain in the James Bond universe, best known as the primary antagonist and high-stakes gambler in Ian Fleming’s novel and its film adaptations.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Le Chiffre
subject linked to:
Mr. White (in the 2006 film)
linked to: Le Chiffre
subject linked to:
James Bond novel "Casino Royale"
subject linked to:
James Bond novel "Casino Royale"