Dave Bannion
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Dave Bannion is a tough, morally driven police detective who wages a relentless one-man war against corruption and organized crime in the classic film noir "The Big Heat."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Bannion canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7775587 — 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: Dave Bannion Context triple: [The Big Heat, mainCharacter, Dave Bannion]
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A.
Dale Bowers
Dale Bowers is an Anglican bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Diocese of St Helena, overseeing the church’s ministry on the remote South Atlantic islands of St Helena and Ascension.
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B.
Mike McNeil
Mike McNeil is a software developer best known as the creator of the Sails.js Node.js web framework.
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C.
Rob Bourdon
Rob Bourdon is an American musician best known as the drummer and a founding member of the rock band Linkin Park.
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D.
Bobby Newmyer
Bobby Newmyer was an American film producer known for backing gritty, character-driven movies in Hollywood, including the crime thriller "Training Day."
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E.
Greg Barnett
Greg Barnett is an actor known for his role in the 2013 television miniseries "The Bible."
- 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: Dave Bannion Target entity description: Dave Bannion is a tough, morally driven police detective who wages a relentless one-man war against corruption and organized crime in the classic film noir "The Big Heat."
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A.
Dale Bowers
Dale Bowers is an Anglican bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Diocese of St Helena, overseeing the church’s ministry on the remote South Atlantic islands of St Helena and Ascension.
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B.
Mike McNeil
Mike McNeil is a software developer best known as the creator of the Sails.js Node.js web framework.
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C.
Rob Bourdon
Rob Bourdon is an American musician best known as the drummer and a founding member of the rock band Linkin Park.
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D.
Bobby Newmyer
Bobby Newmyer was an American film producer known for backing gritty, character-driven movies in Hollywood, including the crime thriller "Training Day."
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E.
Greg Barnett
Greg Barnett is an actor known for his role in the 2013 television miniseries "The Bible."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Big Heat ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | film noir ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Big Heat (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Big Heat
|
| basedOnWorkBy | William P. McGivern ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Sydney Boehm ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst |
corruption
ⓘ
organized crime ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Big Heat (1953 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Big Heat
|
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
crime film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
morally driven
ⓘ
relentless ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | principled ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
defies corrupt superiors
ⓘ
personal crusade against the mob ⓘ |
| notableFor | one-man war on crime ⓘ |
| occupation |
homicide detective
ⓘ
police detective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Glenn Ford ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | American city ⓘ |
| worksFor | police department ⓘ |
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: Dave Bannion Description of subject: Dave Bannion is a tough, morally driven police detective who wages a relentless one-man war against corruption and organized crime in the classic film noir "The Big Heat."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.