Vic Donatti
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Vic Donatti is the troubled protagonist of Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.,” a man who turns to a sinister company in a desperate attempt to stop smoking.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vic Donatti canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8244099 — 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: Vic Donatti Context triple: [Quitters, Inc., featuresCharacter, Vic Donatti]
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A.
Vince Chiappetta
Vince Chiappetta is an American running advocate and organizer best known as a co-founder of the New York City Marathon.
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B.
Vern Damico
Vern Damico is a character in Norman Mailer’s nonfiction novel "The Executioner’s Song," which chronicles the life and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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C.
Rudy Pompilli
Rudy Pompilli was an American saxophonist best known for his energetic performances and solos with the pioneering rock and roll band Bill Haley & His Comets.
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D.
Pete Ciarrocchi
Pete Ciarrocchi is an American businessman best known as the founder of the Chickie’s & Pete’s sports bar chain and a prominent figure in Philadelphia’s sports and hospitality scene.
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E.
Charlie Dattolo
Charlie Dattolo is a character from the television series "Girls," known as the on-and-off boyfriend of Marnie Michaels.
- 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: Vic Donatti Target entity description: Vic Donatti is the troubled protagonist of Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.,” a man who turns to a sinister company in a desperate attempt to stop smoking.
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A.
Vince Chiappetta
Vince Chiappetta is an American running advocate and organizer best known as a co-founder of the New York City Marathon.
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B.
Vern Damico
Vern Damico is a character in Norman Mailer’s nonfiction novel "The Executioner’s Song," which chronicles the life and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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C.
Rudy Pompilli
Rudy Pompilli was an American saxophonist best known for his energetic performances and solos with the pioneering rock and roll band Bill Haley & His Comets.
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D.
Pete Ciarrocchi
Pete Ciarrocchi is an American businessman best known as the founder of the Chickie’s & Pete’s sports bar chain and a prominent figure in Philadelphia’s sports and hospitality scene.
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E.
Charlie Dattolo
Charlie Dattolo is a character from the television series "Girls," known as the on-and-off boyfriend of Marnie Michaels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Quitters, Inc. ⓘ |
| appearsInCollection | Night Shift ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | short story ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
anxious
ⓘ
guilty about smoking ⓘ troubled ⓘ |
| createdBy | Stephen King ⓘ |
| createdByCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| facesThreatFrom | Quitters, Inc. enforcement methods ⓘ |
| fears | harm to his family ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
horror fiction
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hasAddiction | cigarette smoking ⓘ |
| hasChild | Vic Donatti's son ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearsIn | English ⓘ |
| makesDealWith | Quitters, Inc. ⓘ |
| motivatedBy | desire to quit smoking ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | advertising executive ⓘ |
| seeksHelpFrom |
Quitters, Inc. company
ⓘ
linked to:
Quitters, Inc.
|
| spouse | Donna Donatti ⓘ |
| storyRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Quitters, Inc. (short story)
ⓘ
linked to:
Quitters, Inc.
|
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: Vic Donatti Description of subject: Vic Donatti is the troubled protagonist of Stephen King’s short story “Quitters, Inc.,” a man who turns to a sinister company in a desperate attempt to stop smoking.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Stephen King short story Quitters, Inc.