Cass Sheppard
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Cass Sheppard is a character in the science fiction horror film "Annihilation," serving as one of the members of the all-female expedition into the mysterious environmental anomaly known as "the Shimmer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cass Sheppard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10494454 — 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: Cass Sheppard Context triple: [Annihilation, hasCharacter, Cass Sheppard]
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A.
Marian Marsh
Marian Marsh was a Canadian-born American film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1930s Hollywood dramas and crime films.
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B.
Mary Wayne Marsh
Mary Wayne Marsh, better known by her stage name Mae Marsh, was a prominent American silent film actress celebrated for her roles in early 20th-century cinema, including collaborations with director D. W. Griffith.
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C.
Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who murdered several men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 and became one of the most infamous female criminals in U.S. history.
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D.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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E.
Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark was a pioneering Brazilian artist known for her influential role in Neo-Concrete art and her participatory, sensory-based works that blurred the boundaries between art and viewer.
- 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: Cass Sheppard Target entity description: Cass Sheppard is a character in the science fiction horror film "Annihilation," serving as one of the members of the all-female expedition into the mysterious environmental anomaly known as "the Shimmer."
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A.
Marian Marsh
Marian Marsh was a Canadian-born American film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1930s Hollywood dramas and crime films.
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B.
Mary Wayne Marsh
Mary Wayne Marsh, better known by her stage name Mae Marsh, was a prominent American silent film actress celebrated for her roles in early 20th-century cinema, including collaborations with director D. W. Griffith.
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C.
Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who murdered several men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 and became one of the most infamous female criminals in U.S. history.
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D.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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E.
Lygia Clark
Lygia Clark was a pioneering Brazilian artist known for her influential role in Neo-Concrete art and her participatory, sensory-based works that blurred the boundaries between art and viewer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Annihilation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Annihilation (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expeditionDestination | the Shimmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction horror ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| memberOf | all-female expedition into the Shimmer ⓘ |
| notableFor | participating in expedition into the Shimmer ⓘ |
| occupation | paramedic ⓘ |
| universe | Annihilation (film universe) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Cass Sheppard Description of subject: Cass Sheppard is a character in the science fiction horror film "Annihilation," serving as one of the members of the all-female expedition into the mysterious environmental anomaly known as "the Shimmer."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.