Denny Lachance
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Denny Lachance is a character from Stephen King’s novella "The Body" (and its film adaptation "Stand by Me"), known as Gordie Lachance’s older brother whose death deeply affects Gordie’s life and emotional development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Denny Lachance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21306104 — 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: Denny Lachance Context triple: [Gordie Lachance, familyMember, Denny Lachance]
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A.
Don Lavoie
Don Lavoie was an American economist and prominent Austrian School scholar known for his influential work on the socialist calculation debate and the role of knowledge and computation in economic planning.
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B.
Lance Brisson
Lance Brisson is the son of acclaimed American actress Rosalind Russell and her husband, producer Frederick Brisson.
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C.
John Laroche
John Laroche is a real-life eccentric plant dealer and orchid poacher whose obsessive personality and legal troubles inspired a central character in the film and book "Adaptation."
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D.
Kevin Lepage
Kevin Lepage is an American professional stock car racing driver best known for his intermittent NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series appearances from the 1990s through the 2000s.
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E.
Daryl Van Horne
Daryl Van Horne is the mysterious, charismatic stranger with demonic overtones who seduces and empowers three women in John Updike’s novel and its film adaptation "The Witches of Eastwick."
- 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: Denny Lachance Target entity description: Denny Lachance is a character from Stephen King’s novella "The Body" (and its film adaptation "Stand by Me"), known as Gordie Lachance’s older brother whose death deeply affects Gordie’s life and emotional development.
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A.
Don Lavoie
Don Lavoie was an American economist and prominent Austrian School scholar known for his influential work on the socialist calculation debate and the role of knowledge and computation in economic planning.
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B.
Lance Brisson
Lance Brisson is the son of acclaimed American actress Rosalind Russell and her husband, producer Frederick Brisson.
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C.
John Laroche
John Laroche is a real-life eccentric plant dealer and orchid poacher whose obsessive personality and legal troubles inspired a central character in the film and book "Adaptation."
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D.
Kevin Lepage
Kevin Lepage is an American professional stock car racing driver best known for his intermittent NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series appearances from the 1990s through the 2000s.
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E.
Daryl Van Horne
Daryl Van Horne is the mysterious, charismatic stranger with demonic overtones who seduces and empowers three women in John Updike’s novel and its film adaptation "The Witches of Eastwick."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.