Eric Draven
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Eric Draven is the vengeful, resurrected rock musician and antihero from the dark fantasy film and comic series "The Crow."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Draven canonical | 4 |
| Eric Draven in The Crow: Stairway to Heaven | 1 |
| Eric Draven, a murdered musician resurrected to seek vengeance and redemption | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6043061 — 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: Eric Draven Context triple: [Brandon Lee, portrayed, Eric Draven]
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A.
Michael Cage
Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
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B.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
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C.
Stephen Orlac
Stephen Orlac is the tormented concert pianist in the 1935 horror film "Mad Love," whose transplanted hands drive him toward madness and violence.
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D.
Balthazar Bratt
Balthazar Bratt is a former child TV star turned supervillain obsessed with 1980s pop culture in the Despicable Me film series.
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E.
Robert Barrat
Robert Barrat was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
- 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: Eric Draven Target entity description: Eric Draven is the vengeful, resurrected rock musician and antihero from the dark fantasy film and comic series "The Crow."
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A.
Michael Cage
Michael Cage is a former American professional basketball player and dominant rebounder who starred in college before enjoying a long NBA career primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.
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B.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
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C.
Stephen Orlac
Stephen Orlac is the tormented concert pianist in the 1935 horror film "Mad Love," whose transplanted hands drive him toward madness and violence.
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D.
Balthazar Bratt
Balthazar Bratt is a former child TV star turned supervillain obsessed with 1980s pop culture in the Despicable Me film series.
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E.
Robert Barrat
Robert Barrat was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antihero
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fictional character ⓘ resurrected being ⓘ |
| alignment | vigilante justice ⓘ |
| ally |
Sarah
ⓘ
Sergeant Albrecht ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Crow
ⓘ
The Crow (1994 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Crow
The Crow (comic series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Crow (comic book)
|
| basedOn | Eric from The Crow (comic) ⓘ |
| catchphrase | It can't rain all the time ⓘ |
| creator | James O'Barr ⓘ |
| enemy |
Funboy
ⓘ
Skank ⓘ T-Bird ⓘ
linked to:
Ford Thunderbird
Tin Tin ⓘ Top Dollar ⓘ |
| fiancee | Shelly Webster ⓘ |
| filmDebut |
The Crow (1994 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Crow
|
| franchise | The Crow franchise ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fantasy
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| homeCity | Detroit ⓘ |
| killedBy |
T-Bird
ⓘ
linked to:
Ford Thunderbird
Top Dollar's gang ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Shelly Webster ⓘ |
| motivation |
vengeance for his own murder
ⓘ
vengeance for the murder of his fiancée ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
empathic link with a crow
ⓘ
enhanced agility ⓘ enhanced strength ⓘ near invulnerability ⓘ rapid healing ⓘ supernatural regeneration ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
rock musician ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brandon Lee ⓘ |
| resurrectedBy | mystical crow ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| statusInStory | undead ⓘ |
| symbol | crow ⓘ |
| theme |
love and loss
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| visualTrait |
black clothing
ⓘ
white face paint with black markings ⓘ |
| weapon |
electric guitar
ⓘ
handgun ⓘ |
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: Eric Draven Description of subject: Eric Draven is the vengeful, resurrected rock musician and antihero from the dark fantasy film and comic series "The Crow."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Eric Draven
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
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follows
→
Eric Draven, a murdered musician resurrected to seek vengeance and redemption
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linked to: Eric Draven