Eddie Valiant
E183540
Eddie Valiant is a hard-boiled, down-on-his-luck private detective who becomes entangled with cartoon characters in the hybrid live-action/animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eddie Valiant canonical | 10 |
| Eddie Valiant (novel character) | 1 |
| Teddy Valiant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1637022 — 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: Eddie Valiant Context triple: [Who Framed Roger Rabbit, mainCharacter, Eddie Valiant]
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A.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
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B.
Rupert Psmith
Rupert Psmith is a witty, impeccably dressed, and verbally flamboyant young Englishman who stars in several humorous P. G. Wodehouse stories.
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C.
Mr Obadiah Slope
Mr Obadiah Slope is a scheming, ambitious clergyman and social climber in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for his hypocrisy and manipulative pursuit of power within the church and local society.
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D.
Cosmo Brown
Cosmo Brown is the wisecracking, musically gifted best friend and sidekick to Don Lockwood in the classic Hollywood musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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E.
Johnny Morgenstern
Johnny Morgenstern is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Morgenstern.
- 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: Eddie Valiant Target entity description: Eddie Valiant is a hard-boiled, down-on-his-luck private detective who becomes entangled with cartoon characters in the hybrid live-action/animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
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A.
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 drama film starring Bette Davis, known for its exploration of vanity, marriage, and personal transformation.
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B.
Rupert Psmith
Rupert Psmith is a witty, impeccably dressed, and verbally flamboyant young Englishman who stars in several humorous P. G. Wodehouse stories.
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C.
Mr Obadiah Slope
Mr Obadiah Slope is a scheming, ambitious clergyman and social climber in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for his hypocrisy and manipulative pursuit of power within the church and local society.
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D.
Cosmo Brown
Cosmo Brown is the wisecracking, musically gifted best friend and sidekick to Don Lockwood in the classic Hollywood musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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E.
Johnny Morgenstern
Johnny Morgenstern is a person notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Morgenstern.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ private detective ⓘ |
| allyOf |
Jessica Rabbit
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Roger Rabbit ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Disney media
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Touchstone Pictures film ⓘ Who Censored Roger Rabbit? ⓘ
surface form:
Who Censored Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit ⓘ |
| associatedMedium | live-action/animation hybrid film ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Toons ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Eddie Valiant
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Eddie Valiant (novel character)
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| creator | Gary K. Wolf ⓘ |
| employer | Valiant & Valiant ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Judge Doom ⓘ |
| filmDebutYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfAppearance | Robert Zemeckis ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
comedy
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fantasy ⓘ neo-noir ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
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surface form:
Who Censored Roger Rabbit
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| firstFilmAppearance | Who Framed Roger Rabbit ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | police officer ⓘ |
| genre | hard-boiled detective ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
alcoholic
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cynical ⓘ down-on-his-luck ⓘ grieving ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
overcoming prejudice against toons
ⓘ
redemption arc ⓘ |
| hasWeapon | revolver ⓘ |
| investigates |
Marvin Acme's death
ⓘ
the alleged affair of Jessica Rabbit ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Dolores ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bridging the human and cartoon worlds
ⓘ
investigating the framing of Roger Rabbit ⓘ |
| occupation | private detective ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Roger Rabbit ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bob Hoskins ⓘ |
| relative |
Eddie Valiant
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Teddy Valiant
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| settingOfActivity | 1940s Los Angeles ⓘ |
| sibling | Teddy Valiant ⓘ |
| uses | toon props ⓘ |
| worksIn |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
Mickey's Toontown ⓘ
surface form:
Toontown
|
| worksWith | Maroon Cartoon Studios ⓘ |
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: Eddie Valiant Description of subject: Eddie Valiant is a hard-boiled, down-on-his-luck private detective who becomes entangled with cartoon characters in the hybrid live-action/animated film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eddie Valiant (novel character)
this entity surface form:
Teddy Valiant