Larry Hooper
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Larry Hooper is a fictional U.S. military psychic and antagonist in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," known for his involvement in secret paranormal experiments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Hooper canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394959 — 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: Larry Hooper Context triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), mainCharacter, Larry Hooper]
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A.
Andy Hopper
Andy Hopper is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his influential work in computer networking, systems research, and the founding of several technology companies.
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B.
Steve Hooker
Steve Hooker is an Australian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medallist, best known for winning the men's pole vault at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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C.
Lew Harper
Lew Harper is a hardboiled private detective character, famously portrayed by Paul Newman in a series of crime films adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novels.
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D.
Sean Hopper
Sean Hopper is an American keyboardist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Huey Lewis and the News.
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E.
Mel Hunter
Mel Hunter was an American illustrator and artist best known for his science fiction book and magazine covers in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Larry Hooper Target entity description: Larry Hooper is a fictional U.S. military psychic and antagonist in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," known for his involvement in secret paranormal experiments.
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A.
Andy Hopper
Andy Hopper is a British computer scientist and entrepreneur known for his influential work in computer networking, systems research, and the founding of several technology companies.
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B.
Steve Hooker
Steve Hooker is an Australian pole vaulter and Olympic gold medallist, best known for winning the men's pole vault at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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C.
Lew Harper
Lew Harper is a hardboiled private detective character, famously portrayed by Paul Newman in a series of crime films adapted from Ross Macdonald’s novels.
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D.
Sean Hopper
Sean Hopper is an American keyboardist best known as a longtime member of the rock band Huey Lewis and the News.
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E.
Mel Hunter
Mel Hunter was an American illustrator and artist best known for his science fiction book and magazine covers in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| affiliation | United States Army ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Men Who Stare at Goats
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linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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| associatedWith |
New Earth Army (fictionalized military unit)
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linked to:
New Earth Army
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| basedOn | real-life figures associated with U.S. military psychic programs ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
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cynical ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| createdFor | The Men Who Stare at Goats (film) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009 film)
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linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)
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| genreOfWork | satirical war film ⓘ |
| hasAbility | psychic powers ⓘ |
| involvedIn | secret paranormal experiments ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | rival to Lyn Cassady ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. military officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kevin Spacey ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist in The Men Who Stare at Goats ⓘ |
| uses | paranormal techniques for military purposes ⓘ |
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: Larry Hooper Description of subject: Larry Hooper is a fictional U.S. military psychic and antagonist in the satirical war film "The Men Who Stare at Goats," known for his involvement in secret paranormal experiments.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.