Grover T. Muldoon
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Grover T. Muldoon is a fast-talking, streetwise Chicago car thief portrayed by Richard Pryor in the 1976 comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Grover T. Muldoon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232271 — 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: Grover T. Muldoon Context triple: [Silver Streak, mainCharacter, Grover T. Muldoon]
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A.
William H. Filer
William H. Filer was an American banker and civic leader best known for his pivotal role in establishing the University of Miami in the 1920s.
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B.
Morton D. Hull
Morton D. Hull was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois in the early 20th century.
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C.
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
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D.
William A. Egan
William A. Egan was an American politician who became the first elected governor of the U.S. state of Alaska after it achieved statehood.
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E.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
- 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: Grover T. Muldoon Target entity description: Grover T. Muldoon is a fast-talking, streetwise Chicago car thief portrayed by Richard Pryor in the 1976 comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak."
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A.
William H. Filer
William H. Filer was an American banker and civic leader best known for his pivotal role in establishing the University of Miami in the 1920s.
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B.
Morton D. Hull
Morton D. Hull was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois in the early 20th century.
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C.
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
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D.
William A. Egan
William A. Egan was an American politician who became the first elected governor of the U.S. state of Alaska after it achieved statehood.
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E.
Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Silver Streak ⓘ |
| associatedWithActor | Richard Pryor ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
fast-talking
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streetwise ⓘ |
| createdFor | Silver Streak ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | Chicago ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comedy-thriller ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Grover T. Muldoon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
Silver Streak
ⓘ
surface form:
1976 film Silver Streak
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| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic relief in Silver Streak
ⓘ
humorous dialogue ⓘ |
| occupation | car thief ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Richard Pryor ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1976 ⓘ |
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: Grover T. Muldoon Description of subject: Grover T. Muldoon is a fast-talking, streetwise Chicago car thief portrayed by Richard Pryor in the 1976 comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.