Ian Howe
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Ian Howe is the primary antagonist in the film "National Treasure," a wealthy and ruthless treasure hunter who betrays the protagonist in his quest for historical riches.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ian Howe canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6965024 — 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: Ian Howe Context triple: [National Treasure, character, Ian Howe]
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A.
David Howell
David Howell is a British Conservative politician and life peer who held several ministerial roles, including Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport, during a long parliamentary career.
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B.
Jeffrey Howlett
Jeffrey Howlett was an Australian architect best known for his influential modernist designs, particularly major public buildings in Perth.
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C.
Chris Haywood
Chris Haywood is an Australian actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre since the 1970s.
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D.
Alan Howarth
Alan Howarth is an American composer and sound designer best known for co-creating and expanding the iconic synthesizer-driven scores of many John Carpenter horror and science fiction films.
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E.
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe was an American character actor known for his prolific career in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, often portraying dignified or scholarly supporting roles.
- 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: Ian Howe Target entity description: Ian Howe is the primary antagonist in the film "National Treasure," a wealthy and ruthless treasure hunter who betrays the protagonist in his quest for historical riches.
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A.
David Howell
David Howell is a British Conservative politician and life peer who held several ministerial roles, including Secretary of State for Energy and for Transport, during a long parliamentary career.
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B.
Jeffrey Howlett
Jeffrey Howlett was an Australian architect best known for his influential modernist designs, particularly major public buildings in Perth.
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C.
Chris Haywood
Chris Haywood is an Australian actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre since the 1970s.
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D.
Alan Howarth
Alan Howarth is an American composer and sound designer best known for co-creating and expanding the iconic synthesizer-driven scores of many John Carpenter horror and science fiction films.
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E.
Ian Wolfe
Ian Wolfe was an American character actor known for his prolific career in film and television from the 1930s through the 1980s, often portraying dignified or scholarly supporting roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | National Treasure ⓘ |
| associatedWith | criminal activities ⓘ |
| betrays | Benjamin Franklin Gates ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ruthless
ⓘ
wealthy ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Charles Segars
ⓘ
Jim Kouf ⓘ Oren Aviv ⓘ |
| enemyOf |
Abigail Chase
ⓘ
Benjamin Franklin Gates ⓘ Riley Poole ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext |
adventure
ⓘ
heist ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
National Treasure (2004 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
National Treasure
|
| imprisonedBy |
FBI
ⓘ
linked to:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
|
| leads | group of mercenaries ⓘ |
| motivatedBy |
desire for historical riches
ⓘ
greed ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableAction |
betrays partners to gain full control of the treasure
ⓘ
funds expedition to Charlotte shipwreck ⓘ pursues clues hidden in American historical artifacts ⓘ |
| occupation | treasure hunter ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
National Treasure film series
ⓘ
linked to:
National Treasure
|
| plansToSteal |
Declaration of Independence
ⓘ
linked to:
American Declaration of Independence
|
| portrayedBy | Sean Bean ⓘ |
| roleIn | primary antagonist in National Treasure ⓘ |
| searchesFor |
Freemason treasure
ⓘ
Templar treasure ⓘ |
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: Ian Howe Description of subject: Ian Howe is the primary antagonist in the film "National Treasure," a wealthy and ruthless treasure hunter who betrays the protagonist in his quest for historical riches.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dr. Abigail Chase in National Treasure