Guy Noir
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Guy Noir is a fictional hard-boiled detective featured in the comedic radio sketches on the show "A Prairie Home Companion."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guy Noir canonical | 2 |
| Guy Noir (radio character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13212356 — 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: Guy Noir Context triple: [Guy Noir, Private Eye, mainCharacter, Guy Noir]
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A.
Paul Blackthorne
Paul Blackthorne is a British actor best known for his role as Detective Quentin Lance on the television series "Arrow."
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B.
Mr. Dark
Mr. Dark is the sinister, enigmatic leader of a traveling carnival who preys on human desires and fears in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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C.
Joker Marchant
Joker Marchant was a longtime Lakeland, Florida civic leader and parks director after whom the city’s baseball stadium, now known as Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, was named.
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D.
Don LaRue
Don LaRue is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname LaRue.
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E.
Nick Shadow
Nick Shadow is the demonic tempter and antagonist in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who leads the protagonist Tom Rakewell to ruin.
- 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: Guy Noir Target entity description: Guy Noir is a fictional hard-boiled detective featured in the comedic radio sketches on the show "A Prairie Home Companion."
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A.
Paul Blackthorne
Paul Blackthorne is a British actor best known for his role as Detective Quentin Lance on the television series "Arrow."
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B.
Mr. Dark
Mr. Dark is the sinister, enigmatic leader of a traveling carnival who preys on human desires and fears in Ray Bradbury’s dark fantasy novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
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C.
Joker Marchant
Joker Marchant was a longtime Lakeland, Florida civic leader and parks director after whom the city’s baseball stadium, now known as Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium, was named.
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D.
Don LaRue
Don LaRue is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname LaRue.
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E.
Nick Shadow
Nick Shadow is the demonic tempter and antagonist in Igor Stravinsky’s opera *The Rake’s Progress*, who leads the protagonist Tom Rakewell to ruin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
fictional detective ⓘ radio drama character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
A Prairie Home Companion
ⓘ
linked to:
A Prairie Home Companion (radio show)
|
| associatedWith |
American public radio
ⓘ
Minnesota Public Radio ⓘ Public Radio International ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
public radio in the United States
ⓘ
syndicated radio networks ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
deadpan
ⓘ
romantic but unlucky ⓘ world-weary ⓘ |
| characterType | comedic character ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Garrison Keillor ⓘ |
| fictionalOfficeLocation |
Acme Building
ⓘ
downtown Minneapolis ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork |
A Prairie Home Companion
ⓘ
linked to:
A Prairie Home Companion (radio show)
|
| genre | hard-boiled detective fiction parody ⓘ |
| hasCatchphrase | “It was a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets…” ⓘ |
| hasFormat | short radio sketch ⓘ |
| humorStyle |
parody
ⓘ
situational comedy ⓘ wordplay ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
hard-boiled detective fiction
ⓘ
noir fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | radio ⓘ |
| narrationStyle | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
gumshoe
ⓘ
private detective ⓘ |
| parodies |
Philip Marlowe
ⓘ
Sam Spade ⓘ |
| partOf | A Prairie Home Companion recurring sketches ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Garrison Keillor ⓘ |
| segmentOf |
Guy Noir: Private Eye
ⓘ
linked to:
Guy Noir, Private Eye
|
| setting |
Minneapolis
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| style | film noir pastiche ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult listeners ⓘ |
| tone | humorous ⓘ |
| typicalTheme |
comic investigation of trivial problems
ⓘ
satire of crime fiction tropes ⓘ |
| usesNarrativeDevice | voice-over monologue ⓘ |
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: Guy Noir Description of subject: Guy Noir is a fictional hard-boiled detective featured in the comedic radio sketches on the show "A Prairie Home Companion."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Guy Noir (character played by Kevin Kline)
linked to: Guy Noir
subject linked to:
Guy Noir (character played by Kevin Kline)