Rocky Sullivan
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Rocky Sullivan is a tough, streetwise gangster portrayed by James Cagney in the classic 1938 crime film "Angels with Dirty Faces."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rocky Sullivan canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10811119 — 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: Rocky Sullivan Context triple: [Angels with Dirty Faces, character, Rocky Sullivan]
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A.
Rocky Todd
Rocky Todd is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, appearing as one of Bertie Wooster’s friends.
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B.
Rocky Krakoff
Rocky Krakoff is an American child actor best known for playing a young Robert "Rocky" Balboa Jr. in the film "Rocky IV."
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C.
Joseph "Rocky" Rockford
Joseph "Rocky" Rockford is the gruff but warm-hearted father of private investigator Jim Rockford on the television series "The Rockford Files."
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D.
Rocky Anderson
Rocky Anderson is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and later became known for his outspoken progressive activism and third-party presidential run.
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E.
Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge was an American professional boxer and former WBA super featherweight world champion known for his power and memorable rivalries in the 1980s.
- 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: Rocky Sullivan Target entity description: Rocky Sullivan is a tough, streetwise gangster portrayed by James Cagney in the classic 1938 crime film "Angels with Dirty Faces."
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A.
Rocky Todd
Rocky Todd is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, appearing as one of Bertie Wooster’s friends.
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B.
Rocky Krakoff
Rocky Krakoff is an American child actor best known for playing a young Robert "Rocky" Balboa Jr. in the film "Rocky IV."
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C.
Joseph "Rocky" Rockford
Joseph "Rocky" Rockford is the gruff but warm-hearted father of private investigator Jim Rockford on the television series "The Rockford Files."
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D.
Rocky Anderson
Rocky Anderson is an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and later became known for his outspoken progressive activism and third-party presidential run.
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E.
Rocky Lockridge
Rocky Lockridge was an American professional boxer and former WBA super featherweight world champion known for his power and memorable rivalries in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ gangster ⓘ |
| alignment | antihero ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Angels with Dirty Faces ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmDirectedBy | Michael Curtiz ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Father Jerry Connolly
ⓘ
The Dead End Kids ⓘ |
| basedIn | urban environment ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
streetwise
ⓘ
tough ⓘ |
| closeFriendOf | Father Jerry Connolly ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdFor | Angels with Dirty Faces ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Angels with Dirty Faces ⓘ |
| genre | crime ⓘ |
| hasFilmGenre | crime drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
final execution scene
ⓘ
influence on neighborhood boys ⓘ |
| notablePortrayalBy | James Cagney ⓘ |
| occupation | gangster ⓘ |
| partOf | American gangster film tradition ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
charismatic
ⓘ
morally ambiguous ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Cagney ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1938 ⓘ |
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: Rocky Sullivan Description of subject: Rocky Sullivan is a tough, streetwise gangster portrayed by James Cagney in the classic 1938 crime film "Angels with Dirty Faces."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.