Martin Weir
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Martin Weir is a vain but successful Hollywood movie star who becomes entangled with loan sharks and mobsters in the crime-comedy story "Get Shorty."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin Weir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507562 — 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: Martin Weir Context triple: [Get Shorty, mainCharacter, Martin Weir]
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A.
Martin Dougan
Martin Dougan is a Scottish television presenter and former wheelchair basketball player best known for his work on the BBC children's news programme Newsround.
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B.
Matthew Johnston
Matthew Johnston is an American cameraman best known as the husband of acclaimed Broadway and television actress Patti LuPone.
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C.
Mark Dargus
Mark Dargus is a character associated with the crime world surrounding Ordell Robbie in the Elmore Leonard–inspired universe.
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D.
Ben Scrivens
Ben Scrivens is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the NHL for teams including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, and Montreal Canadiens.
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E.
Ryan Lafferty
Ryan Lafferty is a fictional character from the television drama series "Brothers & Sisters," known as the previously unknown half-brother of the Walker family.
- 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: Martin Weir Target entity description: Martin Weir is a vain but successful Hollywood movie star who becomes entangled with loan sharks and mobsters in the crime-comedy story "Get Shorty."
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A.
Martin Dougan
Martin Dougan is a Scottish television presenter and former wheelchair basketball player best known for his work on the BBC children's news programme Newsround.
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B.
Matthew Johnston
Matthew Johnston is an American cameraman best known as the husband of acclaimed Broadway and television actress Patti LuPone.
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C.
Mark Dargus
Mark Dargus is a character associated with the crime world surrounding Ordell Robbie in the Elmore Leonard–inspired universe.
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D.
Ben Scrivens
Ben Scrivens is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the NHL for teams including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, and Montreal Canadiens.
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E.
Ryan Lafferty
Ryan Lafferty is a fictional character from the television drama series "Brothers & Sisters," known as the previously unknown half-brother of the Walker family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Get Shorty ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Get Shorty (novel) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
successful
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vain ⓘ |
| entangledWith |
loan sharks
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mobsters ⓘ |
| genre | crime comedy character ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | major character in Get Shorty ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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movie star ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Martin Weir Description of subject: Martin Weir is a vain but successful Hollywood movie star who becomes entangled with loan sharks and mobsters in the crime-comedy story "Get Shorty."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.