Rocky Dennis
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Rocky Dennis was a real-life American teenager with a rare cranial disorder whose story of resilience and family love was dramatized in the 1985 film "Mask."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rocky Dennis canonical | 6 |
| Rusty Dennis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11170051 — 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 Dennis Context triple: [Mask, mainCharacter, Rocky Dennis]
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A.
Junior Bonner
Junior Bonner is a 1972 Western drama film starring Steve McQueen as an aging rodeo rider, noted for its reflective tone and character-driven storytelling.
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B.
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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C.
Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Waggoner was an American actor and comedian best known as a regular cast member on "The Carol Burnett Show" and for his role as Steve Trevor on the television series "Wonder Woman."
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D.
Donnie Andrews
Donnie Andrews was a real-life Baltimore stick-up man whose life and experiences inspired the character Omar Little on the television series "The Wire."
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E.
Lonny Baxter
Lonny Baxter is a former American professional basketball player best known for starring on the University of Maryland team that won the 2002 NCAA championship.
- 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 Dennis Target entity description: Rocky Dennis was a real-life American teenager with a rare cranial disorder whose story of resilience and family love was dramatized in the 1985 film "Mask."
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A.
Junior Bonner
Junior Bonner is a 1972 Western drama film starring Steve McQueen as an aging rodeo rider, noted for its reflective tone and character-driven storytelling.
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B.
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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C.
Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Waggoner was an American actor and comedian best known as a regular cast member on "The Carol Burnett Show" and for his role as Steve Trevor on the television series "Wonder Woman."
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D.
Donnie Andrews
Donnie Andrews was a real-life Baltimore stick-up man whose life and experiences inspired the character Omar Little on the television series "The Wire."
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E.
Lonny Baxter
Lonny Baxter is a former American professional basketball player best known for starring on the University of Maryland team that won the 2002 NCAA championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American teenager
ⓘ
human ⓘ person with disability ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
California (state)
|
| causeOfDeath |
cranial disorder
ⓘ
craniodiaphyseal dysplasia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-12-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1978-10-04 ⓘ |
| education | public school in California ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dennis ⓘ |
| filmDepictionReleaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| genreOfDepiction | biographical drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Roy ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
facial disfigurement due to bone disorder
ⓘ
severe cranial bone overgrowth ⓘ |
| influenced |
portrayals of disability in film
ⓘ
public awareness of rare bone disorders ⓘ |
| knownFor |
close relationship with his mother
ⓘ
story of resilience ⓘ |
| medicalCondition | craniodiaphyseal dysplasia ⓘ |
| mother | Rusty Dennis ⓘ |
| name | Roy L. Dennis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Rocky ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inspiring the film Mask
ⓘ
living with a rare cranial disorder ⓘ |
| occupation | student ⓘ |
| partOf | Dennis family ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Glendora, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Glendora
|
| placeOfDeath | Citrus Valley Medical Center – Inter-Community Campus, Covina, California, United States ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Eric Stoltz ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Mask ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Mask
ⓘ
biographical articles ⓘ |
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 Dennis Description of subject: Rocky Dennis was a real-life American teenager with a rare cranial disorder whose story of resilience and family love was dramatized in the 1985 film "Mask."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rocky Dennis