Finger
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Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6420842 — 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: Finger Context triple: [Bill Finger, familyName, Finger]
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A.
Ifinger
Ifinger is a prominent mountain peak in the Sarntal Alps of northern Italy, known for its striking rocky profile and popular hiking and climbing routes above Merano in South Tyrol.
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B.
Fingertips
"Fingertips" is an early 1960s live-recorded hit single by Stevie Wonder that became his first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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C.
Crazy Fingers
Crazy Fingers is a jazz-influenced, lyrically intricate Grateful Dead song known for its dreamy, reggae-tinged groove and appearance on their 1975 album "Blues for Allah."
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D.
Dustfinger
Dustfinger is a fire-eating performer and complex, conflicted character from Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart series, known for his longing to return to his own fictional world.
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E.
Dirty Fingers
Dirty Fingers is a hard rock/blues album by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, known for its raw sound and energetic guitar work.
- 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: Finger Target entity description: Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
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A.
Ifinger
Ifinger is a prominent mountain peak in the Sarntal Alps of northern Italy, known for its striking rocky profile and popular hiking and climbing routes above Merano in South Tyrol.
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B.
Fingertips
"Fingertips" is an early 1960s live-recorded hit single by Stevie Wonder that became his first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
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C.
Crazy Fingers
Crazy Fingers is a jazz-influenced, lyrically intricate Grateful Dead song known for its dreamy, reggae-tinged groove and appearance on their 1975 album "Blues for Allah."
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D.
Dustfinger
Dustfinger is a fire-eating performer and complex, conflicted character from Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart series, known for his longing to return to his own fictional world.
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E.
Dirty Fingers
Dirty Fingers is a hard rock/blues album by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, known for its raw sound and energetic guitar work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Batman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1914-02-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1974-01-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| familyName |
Finger
ⓘ
Finger ⓘ Finger ⓘ Finger ⓘ Finger ⓘ |
| genre | superhero comics ⓘ |
| givenName | Bill ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Bill Finger
ⓘ
Hans Michael Finger ⓘ Jeff Finger ⓘ Joseph Finger ⓘ Peter Finger ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English language ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-creating many elements of the Batman mythos ⓘ |
| notableWork | Batman ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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comic book writer ⓘ composer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ librarian ⓘ record producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Denver, Colorado, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| workedFor | DC Comics ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Finger Description of subject: Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.