Hughie Warriner
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Hughie Warriner is a fictional character from the 1989 thriller film "Dead Calm," portrayed as a disturbed and manipulative survivor encountered at sea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hughie Warriner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8430403 — 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: Hughie Warriner Context triple: [Billy Zane, playedCharacter, Hughie Warriner]
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A.
Hughie Thomasson
Hughie Thomasson was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Southern rock band The Outlaws and later as a guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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B.
Iven Mackay
Iven Mackay was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for leading the 6th Division in key early World War II campaigns in North Africa and Greece.
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C.
Henry MacRae
Henry MacRae was an early 20th-century American film producer and director known for his work on serials and genre films at Universal Pictures.
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D.
Francis Begbie
Francis Begbie is a violently unpredictable and psychopathic Scottish hardman who serves as one of the most feared and volatile characters in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting universe.
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E.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
- 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: Hughie Warriner Target entity description: Hughie Warriner is a fictional character from the 1989 thriller film "Dead Calm," portrayed as a disturbed and manipulative survivor encountered at sea.
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A.
Hughie Thomasson
Hughie Thomasson was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Southern rock band The Outlaws and later as a guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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B.
Iven Mackay
Iven Mackay was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for leading the 6th Division in key early World War II campaigns in North Africa and Greece.
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C.
Henry MacRae
Henry MacRae was an early 20th-century American film producer and director known for his work on serials and genre films at Universal Pictures.
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D.
Francis Begbie
Francis Begbie is a violently unpredictable and psychopathic Scottish hardman who serves as one of the most feared and volatile characters in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting universe.
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E.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film adaptation character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dead Calm ⓘ |
| associatedWithVessel | Orpheus ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Dead Calm (1963 novel)
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linked to:
Dead Calm
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor |
Dead Calm (1989 film)
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linked to:
Dead Calm
|
| encounteredBy |
John Ingram
ⓘ
Rae Ingram ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | thriller film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| modeOfEncounter | at sea ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | antagonist ⓘ |
| notableAction | boards the Ingrams' yacht ⓘ |
| occupation | sailor ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
disturbed
ⓘ
manipulative ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | psychologically unstable ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Billy Zane ⓘ |
| survivorOf | yacht disaster ⓘ |
| threatens |
John Ingram
ⓘ
Rae Ingram ⓘ |
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: Hughie Warriner Description of subject: Hughie Warriner is a fictional character from the 1989 thriller film "Dead Calm," portrayed as a disturbed and manipulative survivor encountered at sea.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.