Mr. North
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Mr. North is a 1988 American comedy-drama film set in 1920s Newport, Rhode Island, following a young man whose supposed healing powers disrupt the town’s high-society routines.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. North canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8952072 — 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: Mr. North Context triple: [Danny Huston, directed, Mr. North]
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A.
Eric Northman
Eric Northman is a centuries-old Viking vampire and charismatic bar owner who serves as a powerful and morally complex figure in the television series True Blood.
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B.
John Kenworthy
John Kenworthy was a British aircraft designer best known for his work on World War I fighter aircraft such as the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5.
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C.
Norval Chase
Norval Chase is a fictional Canadian industrialist and patriarch in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin," known as the father of narrator Iris Chase.
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D.
Heath Fogg
Heath Fogg is an American guitarist best known as a member of the Grammy-winning rock band Alabama Shakes.
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E.
Russell Winters
Russell Winters is a fictional character from the 2012 ensemble comedy-drama film "Darling Companion," which centers on family relationships and the search for a lost dog.
- 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: Mr. North Target entity description: Mr. North is a 1988 American comedy-drama film set in 1920s Newport, Rhode Island, following a young man whose supposed healing powers disrupt the town’s high-society routines.
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A.
Eric Northman
Eric Northman is a centuries-old Viking vampire and charismatic bar owner who serves as a powerful and morally complex figure in the television series True Blood.
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B.
John Kenworthy
John Kenworthy was a British aircraft designer best known for his work on World War I fighter aircraft such as the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5.
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C.
Norval Chase
Norval Chase is a fictional Canadian industrialist and patriarch in Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin," known as the father of narrator Iris Chase.
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D.
Heath Fogg
Heath Fogg is an American guitarist best known as a member of the Grammy-winning rock band Alabama Shakes.
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E.
Russell Winters
Russell Winters is a fictional character from the 2012 ensemble comedy-drama film "Darling Companion," which centers on family relationships and the search for a lost dog.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Thornton Wilder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Theophilus North
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel by Thornton Wilder ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkGenre | novel ⓘ |
| castMember |
Anjelica Huston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anthony Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ Burgess Meredith NERFINISHED ⓘ David Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Dean Stanton NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathleen Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauren Bacall NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Mitchum NERFINISHED ⓘ Tammy Grimes NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Madsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Walter Lassally NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Danny Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Turner Network Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Roberto Silvi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Newport, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
comedy-drama ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class differences
ⓘ
faith and skepticism ⓘ power of reputation ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Theophilus North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Maurice Jarre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | young man with supposed healing powers ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young man with reputed healing powers disrupts the routines of Newport high society in the 1920s. ⓘ |
| producer | John Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| runtime | 93 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
James Costigan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Janet Roach NERFINISHED ⓘ John Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Newport, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1920s ⓘ |
| title | Mr. North 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: Mr. North Description of subject: Mr. North is a 1988 American comedy-drama film set in 1920s Newport, Rhode Island, following a young man whose supposed healing powers disrupt the town’s high-society routines.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.