Roger Devereau – Patrick McGoohan
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Roger Devereau is the primary villain in the 1976 comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," portrayed with cold-blooded sophistication by actor Patrick McGoohan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Devereau – Patrick McGoohan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232285 — 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: Roger Devereau – Patrick McGoohan Context triple: [Silver Streak, characterPortrayedBy, Roger Devereau – Patrick McGoohan]
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A.
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick McGoohan was an Irish-American actor and director best known for his intense, enigmatic performances in film and television, particularly in the cult TV series "The Prisoner."
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B.
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is an American politician and former Arizona state senator best known for championing hardline immigration legislation, including the controversial SB 1070 law.
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C.
Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr was a Canadian-American actor best known for his iconic television roles as defense attorney Perry Mason and wheelchair-bound detective Robert Ironside.
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D.
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as in films and TV movies throughout the mid-20th century.
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E.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
- 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: Roger Devereau – Patrick McGoohan Target entity description: Roger Devereau is the primary villain in the 1976 comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," portrayed with cold-blooded sophistication by actor Patrick McGoohan.
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A.
Patrick McGoohan
Patrick McGoohan was an Irish-American actor and director best known for his intense, enigmatic performances in film and television, particularly in the cult TV series "The Prisoner."
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B.
Russell Pearce
Russell Pearce is an American politician and former Arizona state senator best known for championing hardline immigration legislation, including the controversial SB 1070 law.
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C.
Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr was a Canadian-American actor best known for his iconic television roles as defense attorney Perry Mason and wheelchair-bound detective Robert Ironside.
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D.
Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver was an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud," as well as in films and TV movies throughout the mid-20th century.
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E.
Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond was an American film and television actor, director, and composer active from the 1930s through the 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood dramas and musicals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film ⓘ film character ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Silver Streak ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cold-blooded
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sophisticated ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter | Roger Devereau ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-thriller film ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Silver Streak ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
art dealer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Patrick McGoohan ⓘ |
| portrays | Roger Devereau ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary villain in the film Silver Streak ⓘ |
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: Roger Devereau – Patrick McGoohan Description of subject: Roger Devereau is the primary villain in the 1976 comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," portrayed with cold-blooded sophistication by actor Patrick McGoohan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.