Dignan
E1027508
Dignan is an overly enthusiastic, idealistic small-time criminal and one of the main characters in Wes Anderson’s film "Bottle Rocket."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dignan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13083771 — 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: Dignan Context triple: [Bottle Rocket, featuresCharacter, Dignan]
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A.
Keady
Keady is a surname most prominently associated with Gene Keady, the longtime head coach of the Purdue University men's basketball team.
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B.
Dignam
Dignam is a sharp-tongued, tough-as-nails police sergeant in the crime thriller film "The Departed," known for his brutal honesty and volatile temper.
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C.
Kelliher
Kelliher is an Irish surname, often of Gaelic origin, that appears in various anglicized spellings including Kelleher.
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D.
Curraheen
Curraheen is a suburban area on the outskirts of Cork city in Ireland, known for its residential communities and proximity to local amenities and transport links.
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E.
Dolavon
Dolavon is a small town in Argentina’s Chubut Province, known for its agricultural activity and historic Welsh-immigrant heritage in the Patagonian region.
- 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: Dignan Target entity description: Dignan is an overly enthusiastic, idealistic small-time criminal and one of the main characters in Wes Anderson’s film "Bottle Rocket."
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A.
Keady
Keady is a surname most prominently associated with Gene Keady, the longtime head coach of the Purdue University men's basketball team.
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B.
Dignam
Dignam is a sharp-tongued, tough-as-nails police sergeant in the crime thriller film "The Departed," known for his brutal honesty and volatile temper.
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C.
Kelliher
Kelliher is an Irish surname, often of Gaelic origin, that appears in various anglicized spellings including Kelleher.
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D.
Curraheen
Curraheen is a suburban area on the outskirts of Cork city in Ireland, known for its residential communities and proximity to local amenities and transport links.
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E.
Dolavon
Dolavon is a small town in Argentina’s Chubut Province, known for its agricultural activity and historic Welsh-immigrant heritage in the Patagonian region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| admires | Mr. Henry ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Bottle Rocket ⓘ |
| appearsInDirectorFilmographyOf | Wes Anderson ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | independent film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | H. I. Incorporated ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dignan from Bottle Rocket (1994 short film) ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Owen Wilson
ⓘ
Wes Anderson ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Bottle Rocket (1996 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Bottle Rocket
|
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | crime comedy film ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
idealistic
ⓘ
overly enthusiastic ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Anthony Adams
ⓘ
Bob Mapplethorpe ⓘ
linked to:
Robert Mapplethorpe
|
| hasPersonalityTrait |
loyal
ⓘ
naive ⓘ optimistic ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | driving force behind the heist plot ⓘ |
| occupation | small-time criminal ⓘ |
| plans | elaborate heists ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Owen Wilson ⓘ |
| roleInWork | main character in Bottle Rocket ⓘ |
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: Dignan Description of subject: Dignan is an overly enthusiastic, idealistic small-time criminal and one of the main characters in Wes Anderson’s film "Bottle Rocket."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.