Stan
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Stan is a fast-talking, over-the-top used-boat and later used-coffin salesman known for his loud jacket and relentless sales pitches in the Monkey Island adventure game series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8562013 — 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: Stan Context triple: [The Secret of Monkey Island, character, Stan]
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A.
Stan
"Stan" is a critically acclaimed song by Eminem that tells the dark, narrative-driven story of an obsessive fan through a series of letters.
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B.
Steve
Steve is a central white homeowner character in the play "Clybourne Park," often embodying the tensions and awkward defenses of privilege in the story’s exploration of race and gentrification.
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C.
Steve
Steve is the familiar given name of Stephen Gary Wozniak, the pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
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D.
Steve
Steve is the commonly used nickname for Stephen Case, an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL.
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E.
Steve
Steve is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Stephen or Steven.
- 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: Stan Target entity description: Stan is a fast-talking, over-the-top used-boat and later used-coffin salesman known for his loud jacket and relentless sales pitches in the Monkey Island adventure game series.
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A.
Stan
"Stan" is a critically acclaimed song by Eminem that tells the dark, narrative-driven story of an obsessive fan through a series of letters.
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B.
Steve
Steve is a central white homeowner character in the play "Clybourne Park," often embodying the tensions and awkward defenses of privilege in the story’s exploration of race and gentrification.
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C.
Steve
Steve is the familiar given name of Stephen Gary Wozniak, the pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Apple Inc.
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D.
Steve
Steve is the commonly used nickname for Stephen Case, an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL.
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E.
Steve
Steve is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Stephen or Steven.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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salesman ⓘ video game character ⓘ |
| alignment | comedic ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Escape from Monkey Island
NERFINISHED
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ Return to Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Tales of Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ The Curse of Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret of Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Booty Island
NERFINISHED
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Guybrush Threepwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Mêlée Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel | aggressive sales tactics ⓘ |
| characterInSeries | Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdBy |
Dave Grossman
NERFINISHED
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Ron Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Schafer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Monkey Island universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Secret of Monkey Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | LucasArts Monkey Island series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gameDeveloper |
LucasArts
NERFINISHED
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Lucasfilm Games NERFINISHED ⓘ Terrible Toybox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | adventure game ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| medium | video game ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fast-talking sales pitches
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loud checkered jacket ⓘ over-the-top salesmanship ⓘ wild gesticulation ⓘ |
| occupation |
used boat salesman
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used coffin salesman ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
opportunistic
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pushy ⓘ talkative ⓘ |
| publisher |
Devolver Digital
NERFINISHED
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LucasArts NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucasfilm Games NERFINISHED ⓘ Telltale Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | comic relief ⓘ |
| speechStyle |
manipulative
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persistent ⓘ rapid ⓘ |
| visualTrait |
bright plaid jacket
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flailing arms animation ⓘ |
| worksAt |
Stan's Previously Owned Coffins
NERFINISHED
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Stan's Previously Owned Vessels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Stan Description of subject: Stan is a fast-talking, over-the-top used-boat and later used-coffin salesman known for his loud jacket and relentless sales pitches in the Monkey Island adventure game series.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.