David Adley
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David Adley is the central narrator and protagonist of Stephen King’s novella "The Breathing Method," through whose perspective the eerie, club-framed tale of an unwed pregnant woman and a mysterious childbirth technique is revealed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Adley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8243549 — 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: David Adley Context triple: [The Breathing Method, mainCharacter, David Adley]
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A.
Jeff McNeil
Jeff McNeil is an American professional baseball player, primarily a contact-hitting second baseman and outfielder for the New York Mets known for his high batting average and versatility.
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B.
Rob Dibble
Rob Dibble is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as a dominant member of the Cincinnati Reds' late-1980s and early-1990s bullpen, particularly the "Nasty Boys" trio that helped secure the 1990 World Series title.
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C.
Alec Mills
Alec Mills is a British cinematographer best known for his work on several James Bond films, including serving as director of photography on "License to Kill."
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D.
Courtney Walsh
Courtney Walsh is a former West Indian fast bowler and captain renowned for being one of cricket’s leading wicket-takers and a key figure in Jamaica and West Indies cricket history.
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E.
David Bell
David Bell is the protagonist of the 1987 American drama film "Americana," around whom the story’s emotional and narrative arc revolves.
- 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: David Adley Target entity description: David Adley is the central narrator and protagonist of Stephen King’s novella "The Breathing Method," through whose perspective the eerie, club-framed tale of an unwed pregnant woman and a mysterious childbirth technique is revealed.
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A.
Jeff McNeil
Jeff McNeil is an American professional baseball player, primarily a contact-hitting second baseman and outfielder for the New York Mets known for his high batting average and versatility.
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B.
Rob Dibble
Rob Dibble is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as a dominant member of the Cincinnati Reds' late-1980s and early-1990s bullpen, particularly the "Nasty Boys" trio that helped secure the 1990 World Series title.
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C.
Alec Mills
Alec Mills is a British cinematographer best known for his work on several James Bond films, including serving as director of photography on "License to Kill."
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D.
Courtney Walsh
Courtney Walsh is a former West Indian fast bowler and captain renowned for being one of cricket’s leading wicket-takers and a key figure in Jamaica and West Indies cricket history.
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E.
David Bell
David Bell is the protagonist of the 1987 American drama film "Americana," around whom the story’s emotional and narrative arc revolves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Breathing Method ⓘ |
| associatedWith | The Club ⓘ |
| characterInWork | Different Seasons ⓘ |
| createdBy | Stephen King ⓘ |
| createdInYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Breathing Method ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Different Seasons ⓘ |
| frameStructureFunction |
introduces the club and its members
ⓘ
relates the inner tale told by Emlyn McCarron ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext |
horror fiction
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Emlyn McCarron
ⓘ
club members ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novella ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | frame narrator ⓘ |
| narratorOf | The Breathing Method ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| observes | mysterious childbirth technique ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Stephen King short fiction characters ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | The Breathing Method ⓘ |
| setIn | New York City ⓘ |
| tellsStoryAbout |
Sandra Stansfield
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an unwed pregnant woman ⓘ |
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: David Adley Description of subject: David Adley is the central narrator and protagonist of Stephen King’s novella "The Breathing Method," through whose perspective the eerie, club-framed tale of an unwed pregnant woman and a mysterious childbirth technique is revealed.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.