Reba McClane
E1014050
Reba McClane is a blind woman who becomes romantically involved with the serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon" and its film adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reba McClane canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12992064 — 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: Reba McClane Context triple: [Red Dragon, featuresCharacter, Reba McClane]
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A.
Lois Reeves
Lois Reeves is an American singer best known as a member of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.
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B.
Lillita Louise MacMurray
Lillita Louise MacMurray, better known as Lita Grey, was an American actress most famous as Charlie Chaplin’s second wife and for her involvement in a highly publicized 1920s divorce scandal.
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C.
Amy Brenneman
Amy Brenneman is an American actress and producer best known for her roles in television series such as "NYPD Blue," "Judging Amy," and "The Leftovers."
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D.
Lori Petty
Lori Petty is an American actress best known for her energetic roles in films like "Point Break," "Tank Girl," and the baseball classic "A League of Their Own."
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E.
Loretta Wilson
Loretta Wilson is a radio producer best known for her work on the long-running public radio variety show "A Prairie Home Companion."
- 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: Reba McClane Target entity description: Reba McClane is a blind woman who becomes romantically involved with the serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon" and its film adaptations.
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A.
Lois Reeves
Lois Reeves is an American singer best known as a member of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas.
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B.
Lillita Louise MacMurray
Lillita Louise MacMurray, better known as Lita Grey, was an American actress most famous as Charlie Chaplin’s second wife and for her involvement in a highly publicized 1920s divorce scandal.
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C.
Amy Brenneman
Amy Brenneman is an American actress and producer best known for her roles in television series such as "NYPD Blue," "Judging Amy," and "The Leftovers."
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D.
Lori Petty
Lori Petty is an American actress best known for her energetic roles in films like "Point Break," "Tank Girl," and the baseball classic "A League of Their Own."
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E.
Loretta Wilson
Loretta Wilson is a radio producer best known for her work on the long-running public radio variety show "A Prairie Home Companion."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
film "Manhunter"
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linked to:
Manhunter (film)
film "Red Dragon" (2002) ⓘ novel "Red Dragon" ⓘ
linked to:
Red Dragon (novel)
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| associatedWith |
Francis Dolarhyde
ⓘ
Jack Crawford ⓘ Will Graham ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
"Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris
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linked to:
Red Dragon (novel)
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| characterTrait |
empathetic
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kind ⓘ trusting ⓘ |
| creator | Thomas Harris ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
novel "Red Dragon" (1981)
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linked to:
Red Dragon (novel)
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasDisability | blindness ⓘ |
| isBlind | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| nationality | American (inferred from setting) ⓘ |
| occupation | lab technician ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Emily Watson
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Joan Allen ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
love interest of Francis Dolarhyde
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victim targeted by Francis Dolarhyde ⓘ |
| romanticallyInvolvedWith | Francis Dolarhyde ⓘ |
| universe |
Hannibal Lecter series
ⓘ
linked to:
Hannibal Lecter novels
|
| worksAt | Gateway Labs ⓘ |
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: Reba McClane Description of subject: Reba McClane is a blind woman who becomes romantically involved with the serial killer Francis Dolarhyde in Thomas Harris’s novel "Red Dragon" and its film adaptations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.