Matt Burke
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Matt Burke is a retired English teacher and key supporting character in Stephen King’s novel "’Salem’s Lot," who helps protagonist Ben Mears confront the town’s growing vampire threat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Burke canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9946971 — 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: Matt Burke Context triple: [Ben Mears, ally, Matt Burke]
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A.
Matt Burke
Matt Burke is a retired Australian rugby union player renowned for his long and successful career with the Wallabies and the New South Wales Waratahs, primarily as a fullback and goal-kicker.
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B.
Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke is an acclaimed Irish fiddler best known for his influential work in traditional Irish music and collaborations with prominent folk groups and artists.
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C.
Dave Burke
Dave Burke is a central character in the 1959 film noir "Odds Against Tomorrow," depicted as a former police officer who masterminds a high-stakes bank heist.
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D.
Mike Burrows
Mike Burrows is a computer scientist best known for his influential work at Google on large-scale distributed systems, including co-authoring the Bigtable storage system.
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E.
Matt Curtis
Matt Curtis is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Amy."
- 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: Matt Burke Target entity description: Matt Burke is a retired English teacher and key supporting character in Stephen King’s novel "’Salem’s Lot," who helps protagonist Ben Mears confront the town’s growing vampire threat.
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A.
Matt Burke
Matt Burke is a retired Australian rugby union player renowned for his long and successful career with the Wallabies and the New South Wales Waratahs, primarily as a fullback and goal-kicker.
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B.
Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke is an acclaimed Irish fiddler best known for his influential work in traditional Irish music and collaborations with prominent folk groups and artists.
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C.
Dave Burke
Dave Burke is a central character in the 1959 film noir "Odds Against Tomorrow," depicted as a former police officer who masterminds a high-stakes bank heist.
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D.
Mike Burrows
Mike Burrows is a computer scientist best known for his influential work at Google on large-scale distributed systems, including co-authoring the Bigtable storage system.
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E.
Matt Curtis
Matt Curtis is a cinematographer known for his work on the film "Amy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
human ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
'Salem's Lot
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem's Lot
|
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ben Mears
ⓘ
Father Donald Callahan ⓘ Mark Petrie ⓘ Susan Norton ⓘ |
| authorGenre |
horror
ⓘ
supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| createdInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| enemy |
Kurt Barlow
ⓘ
vampires ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
'Salem's Lot
ⓘ
linked to:
Salem's Lot
|
| firstPublicationYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror fiction character ⓘ |
| helps |
Ben Mears
ⓘ
Mark Petrie ⓘ |
| helpsWith |
confronting the vampire threat in 'Salem's Lot
ⓘ
investigating disappearances in 'Salem's Lot ⓘ
linked to:
Salem's Lot
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
mentor figure
ⓘ
vampire hunter ally ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | English teacher ⓘ |
| occupationStatus | retired ⓘ |
| partOf | 'Salem's Lot characters ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
courageous
ⓘ
intellectual ⓘ rational ⓘ |
| residence |
Jerusalem's Lot
ⓘ
Maine ⓘ |
| role | supporting character ⓘ |
| teachesAt | high school in Jerusalem's Lot ⓘ |
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: Matt Burke Description of subject: Matt Burke is a retired English teacher and key supporting character in Stephen King’s novel "’Salem’s Lot," who helps protagonist Ben Mears confront the town’s growing vampire threat.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.