Wade Welles
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Wade Welles is a central protagonist in the science fiction television series "Sliders," known for traveling between parallel universes with a small group of companions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wade Welles canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11152321 — 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: Wade Welles Context triple: [Sliders, mainCharacter, Wade Welles]
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A.
Walt Weiss
Walt Weiss is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and later manager, best known for his early success with the Oakland Athletics and his long career in professional baseball.
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B.
Wade Dominguez
Wade Dominguez was an American actor, model, and dancer best known for his breakout role as troubled student Emilio Ramirez in the 1995 film "Dangerous Minds."
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C.
Lathan Devers
Lathan Devers is a shrewd and resourceful trader from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series who becomes entangled in the political and military schemes surrounding the warlord known as the General.
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D.
Alec Mills
Alec Mills is a British cinematographer best known for his work on several James Bond films, including serving as director of photography on "License to Kill."
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E.
A. J. Wells
A. J. Wells was a British information scientist known for his contributions to classification theory and information retrieval.
- 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: Wade Welles Target entity description: Wade Welles is a central protagonist in the science fiction television series "Sliders," known for traveling between parallel universes with a small group of companions.
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A.
Walt Weiss
Walt Weiss is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and later manager, best known for his early success with the Oakland Athletics and his long career in professional baseball.
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B.
Wade Dominguez
Wade Dominguez was an American actor, model, and dancer best known for his breakout role as troubled student Emilio Ramirez in the 1995 film "Dangerous Minds."
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C.
Lathan Devers
Lathan Devers is a shrewd and resourceful trader from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series who becomes entangled in the political and military schemes surrounding the warlord known as the General.
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D.
Alec Mills
Alec Mills is a British cinematographer best known for his work on several James Bond films, including serving as director of photography on "License to Kill."
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E.
A. J. Wells
A. J. Wells was a British information scientist known for his contributions to classification theory and information retrieval.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
science fiction character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Sliders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
Sliders season 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sliders season 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Sliders season 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Kromaggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capturedBy | Kromaggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeFriendOf |
Professor Maximilian Arturo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quinn Mallory NERFINISHED ⓘ Rembrandt Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
Robert K. Weiss
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tracy Tormé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Pilot
ⓘ
Sliders season 1 episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasSkill |
computer literacy
ⓘ
hacking ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loss of home
ⓘ
search for belonging ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
courageous
ⓘ
idealistic ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| homeWorld | Earth Prime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastRegularAppearance | Sliders season 3 finale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central slider
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network |
Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sci-Fi Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
aspiring writer
ⓘ
computer technician ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sabrina Lloyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Kelly Welles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | parallel universes ⓘ |
| statusInSeries | missing ⓘ |
| teamMembership | Sliders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| travelsWith |
Professor Maximilian Arturo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quinn Mallory NERFINISHED ⓘ Rembrandt Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| universeOfOrigin | Earth Prime NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesDevice | timer ⓘ |
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: Wade Welles Description of subject: Wade Welles is a central protagonist in the science fiction television series "Sliders," known for traveling between parallel universes with a small group of companions.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.