Michael O'Hara
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Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael O'Hara canonical | 2 |
| Michael O’Hara | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8742164 — 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: Michael O'Hara Context triple: [The Lady from Shanghai, character, Michael O'Hara]
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A.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara was an American attorney best known for being one of the later husbands of Hungarian-American socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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B.
Roger O'Connor
Roger O'Connor was an Irish nationalist and writer known for his radical political views in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Bill Heelan
Bill Heelan is a developer best known for creating the software project Archie.
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D.
John Rooney
John Rooney is a powerful Irish-American mob boss and father figure to the protagonist in the crime drama film "Road to Perdition."
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E.
John Rooney
John Rooney is an American sportscaster best known for his long career as a Major League Baseball radio play-by-play announcer, including work with the St. Louis Cardinals and previously the Chicago White Sox.
- 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: Michael O'Hara Target entity description: Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
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A.
Michael O'Hara
Michael O'Hara was an American attorney best known for being one of the later husbands of Hungarian-American socialite and actress Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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B.
Roger O'Connor
Roger O'Connor was an Irish nationalist and writer known for his radical political views in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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C.
Bill Heelan
Bill Heelan is a developer best known for creating the software project Archie.
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D.
John Rooney
John Rooney is a powerful Irish-American mob boss and father figure to the protagonist in the crime drama film "Road to Perdition."
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E.
John Rooney
John Rooney is an American sportscaster best known for his long career as a Major League Baseball radio play-by-play announcer, including work with the St. Louis Cardinals and previously the Chicago White Sox.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | The Lady from Shanghai ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Elsa Bannister ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
naive
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romantic ⓘ |
| createdBy | Orson Welles ⓘ |
| drawnInto |
betrayal
ⓘ
murder plot ⓘ |
| filmCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| filmDirector | Orson Welles ⓘ |
| filmLanguage | English ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| genreContext | American cinema ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
courtroom drama
ⓘ
yachting voyage ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| occupation | sailor ⓘ |
| partOf | The Lady from Shanghai cast of characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Orson Welles ⓘ |
| roleIn | The Lady from Shanghai ⓘ |
| settingOfStory |
San Francisco
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| workGenre | film noir ⓘ |
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: Michael O'Hara Description of subject: Michael O'Hara is the naive Irish sailor protagonist of the 1947 film noir "The Lady from Shanghai," whose involvement with a mysterious woman draws him into a web of murder and betrayal.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Michael O'Hara