Neil Cotton
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Neil Cotton is a character in the 2003 film adaptation of "I Capture the Castle," serving as one of the wealthy American brothers whose arrival disrupts and reshapes the lives of the eccentric Mortmain family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Neil Cotton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13147607 — 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: Neil Cotton Context triple: [I Capture the Castle (2003 film), hasCharacter, Neil Cotton]
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A.
Tony Puryear
Tony Puryear is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1996 action film "Eraser" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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B.
Hugh Childers
Hugh Childers was a 19th-century British Liberal politician and statesman who served in several senior government posts, including First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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C.
Hugh Shelton
Hugh Shelton is a retired U.S. Army general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and played key leadership roles in major American military operations of the 1990s.
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D.
Rod Tidwell
Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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E.
Pat Buttram
Pat Buttram was an American character actor and comedian best known for his distinctive nasal voice and roles in Westerns and as Mr. Haney on the television series "Green Acres."
- 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: Neil Cotton Target entity description: Neil Cotton is a character in the 2003 film adaptation of "I Capture the Castle," serving as one of the wealthy American brothers whose arrival disrupts and reshapes the lives of the eccentric Mortmain family.
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A.
Tony Puryear
Tony Puryear is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1996 action film "Eraser" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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B.
Hugh Childers
Hugh Childers was a 19th-century British Liberal politician and statesman who served in several senior government posts, including First Lord of the Admiralty and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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C.
Hugh Shelton
Hugh Shelton is a retired U.S. Army general who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and played key leadership roles in major American military operations of the 1990s.
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D.
Rod Tidwell
Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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E.
Pat Buttram
Pat Buttram was an American character actor and comedian best known for his distinctive nasal voice and roles in Westerns and as Mr. Haney on the television series "Green Acres."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptationOfWork | I Capture the Castle (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affects | Mortmain family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | I Capture the Castle (2003 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mortmain family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Neil Cotton (character in the novel I Capture the Castle) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | I Capture the Castle (story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs |
American
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wealthy ⓘ |
| familyName | Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | I Capture the Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
coming-of-age film
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romantic drama film ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Simon Cotton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedIn | I Capture the Castle (2003 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
romantic interest
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supporting character ⓘ |
| partOf | Cotton family (I Capture the Castle) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotFunction |
catalyst for character development of Mortmain sisters
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disrupts status quo of Mortmain family ⓘ |
| settingOfFiction | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 2003 ⓘ |
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: Neil Cotton Description of subject: Neil Cotton is a character in the 2003 film adaptation of "I Capture the Castle," serving as one of the wealthy American brothers whose arrival disrupts and reshapes the lives of the eccentric Mortmain family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
I Capture the Castle (2003 film)