Alan Ward
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Alan Ward is a determined and idealistic FBI agent in the film "Mississippi Burning," who leads a federal investigation into the racially motivated murders of civil rights workers in 1960s Mississippi.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Ward canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10124368 — 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: Alan Ward Context triple: [Mississippi Burning, mainCharacter, Alan Ward]
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A.
Ian Ward
Ian Ward is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts.
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B.
George Ward
George Ward was a British Conservative politician who served in senior government roles during the mid-20th century, including as Minister of Supply.
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C.
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward is a common English personal name shared by numerous individuals across history, including politicians, writers, athletes, and other public figures.
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D.
Tom Ward
Tom Ward is the young apprentice of a mystical warrior who discovers and hones his supernatural abilities to battle dark forces in the fantasy film "Seventh Son."
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E.
Paul Wylie
Paul Wylie is an American figure skater best known for winning the silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics and later becoming a prominent professional show skater and commentator.
- 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: Alan Ward Target entity description: Alan Ward is a determined and idealistic FBI agent in the film "Mississippi Burning," who leads a federal investigation into the racially motivated murders of civil rights workers in 1960s Mississippi.
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A.
Ian Ward
Ian Ward is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts.
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B.
George Ward
George Ward was a British Conservative politician who served in senior government roles during the mid-20th century, including as Minister of Supply.
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C.
Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward is a common English personal name shared by numerous individuals across history, including politicians, writers, athletes, and other public figures.
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D.
Tom Ward
Tom Ward is the young apprentice of a mystical warrior who discovers and hones his supernatural abilities to battle dark forces in the fantasy film "Seventh Son."
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E.
Paul Wylie
Paul Wylie is an American figure skater best known for winning the silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics and later becoming a prominent professional show skater and commentator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mississippi Burning ⓘ |
| basedOn | FBI agents who investigated the 1964 Mississippi civil rights workers murders (fictionalized) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
by-the-book
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determined ⓘ idealistic ⓘ principled ⓘ |
| conflictWith | local Mississippi authorities ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Chris Gerolmo ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| familyName | Ward ⓘ |
| featuredInDirectorWork | Alan Parker ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | crime drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| investigates |
murders of civil rights workers
ⓘ
racially motivated crimes ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | lawful good ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
federal investigator
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | FBI agent ⓘ |
| opposes |
Ku Klux Klan
ⓘ
racism ⓘ |
| partnerInInvestigation | Rupert Anderson ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Willem Dafoe ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
themes of civil rights
ⓘ
themes of justice ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory |
1960s
ⓘ
Civil Rights era ⓘ |
| usesMethod |
federal authority
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legal procedures ⓘ |
| workLocation | Mississippi ⓘ |
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: Alan Ward Description of subject: Alan Ward is a determined and idealistic FBI agent in the film "Mississippi Burning," who leads a federal investigation into the racially motivated murders of civil rights workers in 1960s Mississippi.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.