Dodge
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Dodge is the ailing, alcoholic patriarch in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," whose secrets and denial embody the family's deep dysfunction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dodge canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592645 — 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: Dodge Context triple: [Buried Child, hasCharacter, Dodge]
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A.
Dodge
Dodge is an American automotive brand best known for its performance-oriented cars, muscle vehicles, and trucks.
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B.
Dodge
Dodge is a primary villain in the "Locke & Key" series, a demonic entity who manipulates the magical keys and the Locke family for its own sinister purposes.
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C.
Chrysler
Chrysler is a major American automobile manufacturer, historically recognized as one of the United States' "Big Three" car companies alongside General Motors and Ford.
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D.
Crysler
Crysler is a small rural community in Eastern Ontario, Canada, known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit local population.
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E.
Dodge Aries
The Dodge Aries was a compact front-wheel-drive sedan and wagon produced by Chrysler in the 1980s, notable for helping revive the company’s fortunes during that decade.
- 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: Dodge Target entity description: Dodge is the ailing, alcoholic patriarch in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," whose secrets and denial embody the family's deep dysfunction.
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A.
Dodge
Dodge is an American automotive brand best known for its performance-oriented cars, muscle vehicles, and trucks.
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B.
Dodge
Dodge is a primary villain in the "Locke & Key" series, a demonic entity who manipulates the magical keys and the Locke family for its own sinister purposes.
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C.
Chrysler
Chrysler is a major American automobile manufacturer, historically recognized as one of the United States' "Big Three" car companies alongside General Motors and Ford.
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D.
Crysler
Crysler is a small rural community in Eastern Ontario, Canada, known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit local population.
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E.
Dodge Aries
The Dodge Aries was a compact front-wheel-drive sedan and wagon produced by Chrysler in the 1980s, notable for helping revive the company’s fortunes during that decade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
patriarch ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Buried Child ⓘ |
| appearsInAct |
Act I of Buried Child
ⓘ
linked to:
Buried Child
Act II of Buried Child ⓘ Act III of Buried Child ⓘ |
| associatedWith | the buried child in the backyard ⓘ |
| centralThemeIn | family dysfunction in Buried Child ⓘ |
| characterType |
ailing patriarch
ⓘ
alcoholic patriarch ⓘ |
| conflictsWith |
Bradley
ⓘ
Halie ⓘ Tilden ⓘ |
| createdBy | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| deathSymbolizes | end of the old family order ⓘ |
| diesIn | Buried Child ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
drives revelation of the family secret
ⓘ
embodies the family’s suppressed guilt ⓘ |
| familyName | Dodge ⓘ |
| firstPerformedInWork |
Buried Child (1978 play)
ⓘ
linked to:
Buried Child
|
| genreOfWorkContext | American drama ⓘ |
| hasAddiction | alcohol ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Bradley
ⓘ
Tilden ⓘ |
| hasRole | patriarch of the family in Buried Child ⓘ |
| hasSecret | infanticide of the buried child ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Halie ⓘ |
| healthStatus | chronically ill ⓘ |
| narrativeArc | moves from denial to partial confession ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| oftenLocated | on the living-room sofa ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
bitter
ⓘ
cynical ⓘ emotionally withdrawn ⓘ physically frail ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Pulitzer Prize-winning play Buried Child ⓘ |
| residesIn | Illinois farmhouse ⓘ |
| responsibleFor | murder of the buried child ⓘ |
| revealsSecretTo | Vince ⓘ |
| setInWorkLocation | rural Illinois ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
denial
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family decay ⓘ moral disintegration ⓘ |
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: Dodge Description of subject: Dodge is the ailing, alcoholic patriarch in Sam Shepard's play "Buried Child," whose secrets and denial embody the family's deep dysfunction.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.