Doyle Lonnegan
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Doyle Lonnegan is the ruthless Irish-American crime boss and high-stakes gambler who serves as the primary antagonist in the classic con-artist film "The Sting."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doyle Lonnegan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5453724 — 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: Doyle Lonnegan Context triple: [The Sting, featuresCharacter, Doyle Lonnegan]
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A.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
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B.
Mal Cobb
Mal Cobb is a central character in the film "Inception," known as Dom Cobb's deceased wife whose haunting presence blurs the line between reality and dream in his subconscious.
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C.
Henry Tucker
Henry Tucker was a Bermudian politician who became the territory's first premier and played a key role in modernizing its political and economic landscape.
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D.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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E.
Orlando Murden
Orlando Murden was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic soul ballad "For Once in My Life."
- 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: Doyle Lonnegan Target entity description: Doyle Lonnegan is the ruthless Irish-American crime boss and high-stakes gambler who serves as the primary antagonist in the classic con-artist film "The Sting."
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A.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
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B.
Mal Cobb
Mal Cobb is a central character in the film "Inception," known as Dom Cobb's deceased wife whose haunting presence blurs the line between reality and dream in his subconscious.
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C.
Henry Tucker
Henry Tucker was a Bermudian politician who became the territory's first premier and played a key role in modernizing its political and economic landscape.
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D.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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E.
Orlando Murden
Orlando Murden was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic soul ballad "For Once in My Life."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Sting ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
illegal gambling
ⓘ
organized crime ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ruthless
ⓘ
vengeful ⓘ violent ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | The Sting ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish-American ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
con-artist film
ⓘ
crime comedy ⓘ |
| inConflictWith |
Henry Gondorff
ⓘ
Johnny Hooker ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | target of the big con ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime boss
ⓘ
high-stakes gambler ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | live-action film ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | Chicago ⓘ |
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: Doyle Lonnegan Description of subject: Doyle Lonnegan is the ruthless Irish-American crime boss and high-stakes gambler who serves as the primary antagonist in the classic con-artist film "The Sting."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.