Nick Szalinski
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Nick Szalinski is the inventive and often accident-prone son of eccentric scientist Wayne Szalinski in the "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" film franchise.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nick Szalinski canonical | 11 |
| Nick Szalinski – Robert Oliveri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9616171 — 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: Nick Szalinski Context triple: [Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, featuresCharacter, Nick Szalinski]
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A.
Mark Brzezicki
Mark Brzezicki is an English rock drummer best known as a founding member of Big Country and a prolific session musician who has played with numerous prominent bands and artists.
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B.
Josh Kiszka
Josh Kiszka is the lead vocalist of the American rock band Greta Van Fleet, known for his powerful, high-register singing style often compared to classic rock frontmen.
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C.
Mark Czyzewski
Mark Czyzewski is an editor known for his work on the film "Greyhound."
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D.
Ryan Stasik
Ryan Stasik is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the progressive rock and jam band Umphrey's McGee.
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E.
John Poznanski
John Poznanski is an American collegiate wrestler best known for his standout career at Rutgers University, where he became one of the program’s top performers.
- 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: Nick Szalinski Target entity description: Nick Szalinski is the inventive and often accident-prone son of eccentric scientist Wayne Szalinski in the "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" film franchise.
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A.
Mark Brzezicki
Mark Brzezicki is an English rock drummer best known as a founding member of Big Country and a prolific session musician who has played with numerous prominent bands and artists.
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B.
Josh Kiszka
Josh Kiszka is the lead vocalist of the American rock band Greta Van Fleet, known for his powerful, high-register singing style often compared to classic rock frontmen.
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C.
Mark Czyzewski
Mark Czyzewski is an editor known for his work on the film "Greyhound."
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D.
Ryan Stasik
Ryan Stasik is an American bassist best known as a founding member of the progressive rock and jam band Umphrey's McGee.
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E.
John Poznanski
John Poznanski is an American collegiate wrestler best known for his standout career at Rutgers University, where he became one of the program’s top performers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids ⓘ Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show ⓘ Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves ⓘ |
| basedOn |
character created by Brian Yuzna
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character created by Ed Naha ⓘ character created by Stuart Gordon ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
accident-prone
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curious ⓘ intelligent ⓘ inventive ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| familyName | Szalinski ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids franchise ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Nick ⓘ |
| hasFather | Wayne Szalinski ⓘ |
| hasMother | Diane Szalinski ⓘ |
| hasPet | Quark ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Amy Szalinski ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
involved in his baby brother Adam being blown up to giant size
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survived being shrunk to microscopic size in his backyard ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being shrunk by his father's experimental shrinking machine
ⓘ
interest in science and invention ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Robert Oliveri
ⓘ
Thomas Dekker ⓘ |
| relative | Adam Szalinski ⓘ |
| residence | suburban home next door to the Thompsons ⓘ |
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: Nick Szalinski Description of subject: Nick Szalinski is the inventive and often accident-prone son of eccentric scientist Wayne Szalinski in the "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" film franchise.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Nick Szalinski