Roger Devereau
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Roger Devereau is the central protagonist of the comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," around whom the movie’s train-bound mystery and adventure revolve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger Devereau canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232273 — 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 Context triple: [Silver Streak, mainCharacter, Roger Devereau]
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A.
Richard LaSalle
Richard LaSalle was an American film and television composer known for scoring numerous movies and TV series from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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B.
Louis Debney
Louis Debney is the father of American film composer John Debney.
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C.
Robert De Grasse
Robert De Grasse was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s, including several RKO productions.
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D.
Joseph Avenol
Joseph Avenol was a French diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the League of Nations during the turbulent years leading up to World War II.
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E.
Robert Deluce
Robert Deluce is a Canadian airline executive best known for creating and leading Porter Airlines, a regional carrier based at Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport.
- 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 Target entity description: Roger Devereau is the central protagonist of the comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," around whom the movie’s train-bound mystery and adventure revolve.
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A.
Richard LaSalle
Richard LaSalle was an American film and television composer known for scoring numerous movies and TV series from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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B.
Louis Debney
Louis Debney is the father of American film composer John Debney.
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C.
Robert De Grasse
Robert De Grasse was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1920s through the 1950s, including several RKO productions.
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D.
Joseph Avenol
Joseph Avenol was a French diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the League of Nations during the turbulent years leading up to World War II.
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E.
Robert Deluce
Robert Deluce is a Canadian airline executive best known for creating and leading Porter Airlines, a regional carrier based at Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Silver Streak ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
train-bound adventure
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train-bound mystery ⓘ |
| genreContext |
comedy
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thriller ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central protagonist
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main character ⓘ |
| primarySetting | train ⓘ |
| storyFunction |
drives adventure plot
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drives mystery plot ⓘ |
| workType | comedy-thriller film ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Roger Devereau is the central protagonist of the comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," around whom the movie’s train-bound mystery and adventure revolve.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Roger Devereau – Patrick McGoohan