Gary DeVore
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Gary DeVore was an American screenwriter known for his work on action films in the 1980s and 1990s and for his mysterious disappearance in 1997.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gary DeVore canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3859826 — 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: Gary DeVore Context triple: [The Dogs of War, screenwriter, Gary DeVore]
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A.
Gary Dornhoefer
Gary Dornhoefer is a former Canadian right winger best known for his gritty play and clutch scoring with the Philadelphia Flyers during their "Broad Street Bullies" era in the 1970s.
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B.
Mike Rodden
Mike Rodden is a musician best known as a member of the American rock band Hinder.
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C.
Bryan Devendorf
Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer best known as a founding member and rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
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D.
Bob Sura
Bob Sura is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his standout college career at Florida State and his tenure in the NBA during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Steve Traxler
Steve Traxler is a theater and film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed stage and screen versions of "August: Osage County."
- 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: Gary DeVore Target entity description: Gary DeVore was an American screenwriter known for his work on action films in the 1980s and 1990s and for his mysterious disappearance in 1997.
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A.
Gary Dornhoefer
Gary Dornhoefer is a former Canadian right winger best known for his gritty play and clutch scoring with the Philadelphia Flyers during their "Broad Street Bullies" era in the 1970s.
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B.
Mike Rodden
Mike Rodden is a musician best known as a member of the American rock band Hinder.
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C.
Bryan Devendorf
Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer best known as a founding member and rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
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D.
Bob Sura
Bob Sura is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his standout college career at Florida State and his tenure in the NBA during the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Steve Traxler
Steve Traxler is a theater and film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed stage and screen versions of "August: Osage County."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability |
screenwriting for major studio action films
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unsolved disappearance case ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfDisappearance | 1997 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | white American ⓘ |
| hasInvestigationStatus | death and disappearance considered mysterious by commentators ⓘ |
| industry |
Hollywood
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surface form:
Hollywood film industry
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent | car and body discovered in California aqueduct after disappearance ⓘ |
| notableFor |
action film screenplays
ⓘ
mysterious disappearance in 1997 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Raw Deal
NERFINISHED
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Running Scared NERFINISHED ⓘ Timecop (uncredited story work, reported) ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfDisappearance | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Diane DeVore
NERFINISHED
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Wendy DeVore NERFINISHED ⓘ Wendy Oates DeVore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1980s
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1990s ⓘ |
| wroteForGenre | action 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: Gary DeVore Description of subject: Gary DeVore was an American screenwriter known for his work on action films in the 1980s and 1990s and for his mysterious disappearance in 1997.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Running Scared (1986 film)