Ted Shane
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Ted Shane is the roguish, wisecracking detective protagonist of the 1936 film "Satan Met a Lady," a loose, comedic adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s "The Maltese Falcon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Shane canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10088912 — 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: Ted Shane Context triple: [Satan Met a Lady, character, Ted Shane]
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A.
Shane Drake
Shane Drake is an American music video director known for his work with major pop and rock artists across the 2000s and 2010s.
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B.
Doug Shane
Doug Shane is an American aerospace engineer and test pilot known for his leadership roles at the experimental aircraft company Scaled Composites.
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C.
Tim DuBois
Tim DuBois is an American music executive and songwriter best known for his influential role in shaping modern country music and developing major artists in Nashville.
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D.
Evan Shelby
Evan Shelby was a colonial-era frontiersman and militia officer in the American South, best known as the father of Revolutionary War hero and Kentucky’s first governor, Isaac Shelby.
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E.
Shawn
Shawn is a given name, typically a variant of the name John or Sean, used primarily in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Ted Shane Target entity description: Ted Shane is the roguish, wisecracking detective protagonist of the 1936 film "Satan Met a Lady," a loose, comedic adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s "The Maltese Falcon."
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A.
Shane Drake
Shane Drake is an American music video director known for his work with major pop and rock artists across the 2000s and 2010s.
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B.
Doug Shane
Doug Shane is an American aerospace engineer and test pilot known for his leadership roles at the experimental aircraft company Scaled Composites.
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C.
Tim DuBois
Tim DuBois is an American music executive and songwriter best known for his influential role in shaping modern country music and developing major artists in Nashville.
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D.
Evan Shelby
Evan Shelby was a colonial-era frontiersman and militia officer in the American South, best known as the father of Revolutionary War hero and Kentucky’s first governor, Isaac Shelby.
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E.
Shawn
Shawn is a given name, typically a variant of the name John or Sean, used primarily in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detective
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| adaptationTone | comedic ⓘ |
| adaptationType | loose adaptation ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Satan Met a Lady ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
comic misadventure
ⓘ
crime investigation ⓘ romantic entanglements ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sam Spade ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | The Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
roguish
ⓘ
wisecracking ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | Satan Met a Lady ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| genreContext | detective fiction ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | comedy mystery film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Ted Shane ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main character ⓘ |
| occupation | private detective ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Warren William ⓘ |
| sourceAuthor | Dashiell Hammett ⓘ |
| sourceNovel | The Maltese Falcon ⓘ |
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: Ted Shane Description of subject: Ted Shane is the roguish, wisecracking detective protagonist of the 1936 film "Satan Met a Lady," a loose, comedic adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s "The Maltese Falcon."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.