Spud
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Spud is the hapless, endearing heroin addict portrayed by Ewen Bremner in the cult British film "Trainspotting" and its sequel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Spud canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8447531 — 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: Spud Context triple: [Ewen Bremner, notableRole, Spud]
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A.
Keeble
Keeble is a fictional aristocratic surname most notably associated with Lady Constance Keeble in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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B.
Bud
Bud is the longtime nickname of Allan H. "Bud" Selig, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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C.
Bud
Bud is the ring nickname of American professional boxer Terence Crawford, a multiple-division world champion widely regarded as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters of his era.
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D.
Bud
Bud is the commonly used nickname of Kenneth Stanley "Bud" Adams Jr., the American businessman best known as the founder and longtime owner of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans franchise.
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E.
Bud
Bud is the nickname of Bud Grant, the legendary former head coach of the Minnesota Vikings and Hall of Fame member known for leading the team to multiple Super Bowl appearances.
- 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: Spud Target entity description: Spud is the hapless, endearing heroin addict portrayed by Ewen Bremner in the cult British film "Trainspotting" and its sequel.
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A.
Keeble
Keeble is a fictional aristocratic surname most notably associated with Lady Constance Keeble in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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B.
Bud
Bud is the longtime nickname of Allan H. "Bud" Selig, the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
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C.
Bud
Bud is the ring nickname of American professional boxer Terence Crawford, a multiple-division world champion widely regarded as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters of his era.
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D.
Bud
Bud is the commonly used nickname of Kenneth Stanley "Bud" Adams Jr., the American businessman best known as the founder and longtime owner of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans franchise.
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E.
Bud
Bud is the nickname of Bud Grant, the legendary former head coach of the Minnesota Vikings and Hall of Fame member known for leading the team to multiple Super Bowl appearances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: Spud Description of subject: Spud is the hapless, endearing heroin addict portrayed by Ewen Bremner in the cult British film "Trainspotting" and its sequel.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sick Boy in Trainspotting
subject linked to:
Skagboys (novel)
subject linked to:
Skagboys (novel)