Dean Moriarty
E70047
Dean Moriarty is a wild, charismatic drifter and free spirit in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road," inspired by the real-life figure Neal Cassady.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dean Moriarty canonical | 10 |
| Dean Moriarty in On the Road (2012 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549684 — 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: Dean Moriarty Context triple: [On the Road, followsCharacter, Dean Moriarty]
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A.
John Howland
John Howland was an English colonist and Mayflower passenger who became a prominent early settler and leader in Plymouth Colony.
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B.
Tracy Samantha Lord
Tracy Samantha Lord is the witty, headstrong Philadelphia socialite at the center of the romantic entanglements in the musical film "High Society."
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C.
Danny Archer
Danny Archer is a fictional mercenary and diamond smuggler in the film "Blood Diamond," known for his morally conflicted role amid the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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D.
Will Parker
Will Parker is a cheerful, somewhat naive cowboy and rodeo performer who provides comic relief and romantic subplots in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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E.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- 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: Dean Moriarty Target entity description: Dean Moriarty is a wild, charismatic drifter and free spirit in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road," inspired by the real-life figure Neal Cassady.
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A.
John Howland
John Howland was an English colonist and Mayflower passenger who became a prominent early settler and leader in Plymouth Colony.
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B.
Tracy Samantha Lord
Tracy Samantha Lord is the witty, headstrong Philadelphia socialite at the center of the romantic entanglements in the musical film "High Society."
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C.
Danny Archer
Danny Archer is a fictional mercenary and diamond smuggler in the film "Blood Diamond," known for his morally conflicted role amid the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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D.
Will Parker
Will Parker is a cheerful, somewhat naive cowboy and rodeo performer who provides comic relief and romantic subplots in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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E.
Felix Unger
Felix Unger is an Austrian cardiac surgeon and academic known for co-founding and leading the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| adaptationAppearance | film adaptations of On the Road ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Dean
ⓘ
Dean Moriarity (variant spelling in some editions) ⓘ |
| appearsIn | On the Road ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
jazz culture
ⓘ
nonconformity ⓘ postwar American counterculture ⓘ restlessness ⓘ road trip ⓘ search for freedom ⓘ spontaneity ⓘ |
| basedOn | Neal Cassady ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
charismatic
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wild ⓘ |
| characterType |
drifter
ⓘ
free spirit ⓘ |
| creator | Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | influential figure in American road narrative ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext |
On the Road
ⓘ
surface form:
On the Road (1957 novel)
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| genre | Beat literature ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Neal Cassady ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | iconic figure of the Beat Generation ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| movement | Beat Generation ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst for Sal Paradise’s journeys ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
energetic
ⓘ
reckless ⓘ sexually promiscuous ⓘ unreliable ⓘ |
| relationship |
husband of Camille (in the novel)
ⓘ
husband of Marylou (in the novel) ⓘ travel companion of Sal Paradise ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central character in On the Road
ⓘ
friend of Sal Paradise ⓘ |
| settingContext |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| settingPeriod | post–World War II era ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
American wanderer archetype
ⓘ
pursuit of experience over stability ⓘ |
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: Dean Moriarty Description of subject: Dean Moriarty is a wild, charismatic drifter and free spirit in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road," inspired by the real-life figure Neal Cassady.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dean Moriarty in On the Road (2012 film)
subject surface form:
Dean Moriarity
subject surface form:
Dean Moriarity