David Rolf
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David Rolf is a fictional character from the horror novel and film "Burnt Offerings," involved in the story’s unsettling, supernatural events surrounding a sinister summer rental house.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Rolf canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913288 — 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: David Rolf Context triple: [Burnt Offerings, hasCharacter, David Rolf]
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A.
Tom Rolf
Tom Rolf was an American film editor best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Taxi Driver" and for winning an Academy Award for editing "The Right Stuff."
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B.
Steve Raffel
Steve Raffel is a video game developer best known as a co-founder of the studio Raven Software, which has worked on numerous high-profile PC and console titles.
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C.
Ben Rolf
Ben Rolf is a character in the horror novel and film "Burnt Offerings," known as the young son in the family that moves into a sinister, transformative mansion.
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D.
Michael Ragen
Michael Ragen is a cinematographer known for his work on the feature film "Kicks."
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E.
Matthew Rolston
Matthew Rolston is an American photographer and director renowned for his stylized celebrity portraiture and visually distinctive music videos.
- 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: David Rolf Target entity description: David Rolf is a fictional character from the horror novel and film "Burnt Offerings," involved in the story’s unsettling, supernatural events surrounding a sinister summer rental house.
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A.
Tom Rolf
Tom Rolf was an American film editor best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Taxi Driver" and for winning an Academy Award for editing "The Right Stuff."
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B.
Steve Raffel
Steve Raffel is a video game developer best known as a co-founder of the studio Raven Software, which has worked on numerous high-profile PC and console titles.
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C.
Ben Rolf
Ben Rolf is a character in the horror novel and film "Burnt Offerings," known as the young son in the family that moves into a sinister, transformative mansion.
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D.
Michael Ragen
Michael Ragen is a cinematographer known for his work on the feature film "Kicks."
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E.
Matthew Rolston
Matthew Rolston is an American photographer and director renowned for his stylized celebrity portraiture and visually distinctive music videos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Burnt Offerings
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Burnt Offerings (1976 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Burnt Offerings
Burnt Offerings (novel) ⓘ
linked to:
Burnt Offerings
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| associatedWith | sinister summer rental house ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse |
Burnt Offerings universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Burnt Offerings
|
| genre | horror ⓘ |
| involvedIn | supernatural events at a summer rental house ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
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: David Rolf Description of subject: David Rolf is a fictional character from the horror novel and film "Burnt Offerings," involved in the story’s unsettling, supernatural events surrounding a sinister summer rental house.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.