Roger Henderson
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Roger Henderson is a central character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," known as a charming but unreliable father whose return disrupts his daughter's impending marriage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roger Henderson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008418 — 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 Henderson Context triple: [The Pleasure of His Company, character, Roger Henderson]
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A.
Eric Gairy
Eric Gairy was a Grenadian politician and trade union leader who served as the country’s first prime minister and was later overthrown in a 1979 coup.
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B.
Roger Stevens
Roger Stevens was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat who notably served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Kenneth Hargreaves
Kenneth Hargreaves was a British public servant and ceremonial official who notably served as Lord Lieutenant in Yorkshire.
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D.
Ronald Lacey
Ronald Lacey was a British character actor best known for his chilling portrayal of the sinister Gestapo agent Major Toht in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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E.
David Horton
David Horton is a pompous, conservative parish council chairman in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," often serving as the main foil to the progressive vicar, Geraldine Granger.
- 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 Henderson Target entity description: Roger Henderson is a central character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," known as a charming but unreliable father whose return disrupts his daughter's impending marriage.
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A.
Eric Gairy
Eric Gairy was a Grenadian politician and trade union leader who served as the country’s first prime minister and was later overthrown in a 1979 coup.
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B.
Roger Stevens
Roger Stevens was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat who notably served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Kenneth Hargreaves
Kenneth Hargreaves was a British public servant and ceremonial official who notably served as Lord Lieutenant in Yorkshire.
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D.
Ronald Lacey
Ronald Lacey was a British character actor best known for his chilling portrayal of the sinister Gestapo agent Major Toht in the film "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
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E.
David Horton
David Horton is a pompous, conservative parish council chairman in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," often serving as the main foil to the progressive vicar, Geraldine Granger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Pleasure of His Company ⓘ |
| basedOn | stage play The Pleasure of His Company ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charming
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unreliable ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| disrupts | Jessica Henderson's impending marriage ⓘ |
| familyRelation | father of Jessica Henderson ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
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 Henderson Description of subject: Roger Henderson is a central character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," known as a charming but unreliable father whose return disrupts his daughter's impending marriage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.