Frank Quinlan
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Frank Quinlan is a central character in the 1996 fantasy drama film "Michael," portrayed as one of the reporters who travels with the archangel Michael and documents his unconventional behavior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank Quinlan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11603667 — 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: Frank Quinlan Context triple: [Michael (1996 film), character, Frank Quinlan]
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A.
Frank Flannagan
Frank Flannagan is the charming, womanizing American businessman portrayed by Gary Cooper in Billy Wilder’s romantic comedy film "Love in the Afternoon."
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B.
Tom Muldoon
Tom Muldoon is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the action blockbuster "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
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C.
Delmar O’Donnell
Delmar O’Donnell is a naive but good-hearted escaped convict and one of the three central companions in the Coen brothers’ film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
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D.
Tom Hickey
Tom Hickey was an Irish actor known for his extensive work in theatre, film, and television, particularly in Ireland.
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E.
Dean O'Gorman
Dean O'Gorman is a New Zealand actor, photographer, and artist best known for playing the dwarf Fíli in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy.
- 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: Frank Quinlan Target entity description: Frank Quinlan is a central character in the 1996 fantasy drama film "Michael," portrayed as one of the reporters who travels with the archangel Michael and documents his unconventional behavior.
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A.
Frank Flannagan
Frank Flannagan is the charming, womanizing American businessman portrayed by Gary Cooper in Billy Wilder’s romantic comedy film "Love in the Afternoon."
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B.
Tom Muldoon
Tom Muldoon is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the action blockbuster "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
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C.
Delmar O’Donnell
Delmar O’Donnell is a naive but good-hearted escaped convict and one of the three central companions in the Coen brothers’ film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
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D.
Tom Hickey
Tom Hickey was an Irish actor known for his extensive work in theatre, film, and television, particularly in Ireland.
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E.
Dean O'Gorman
Dean O'Gorman is a New Zealand actor, photographer, and artist best known for playing the dwarf Fíli in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Michael ⓘ |
| associatedWithPublication | tabloid newspaper ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWorkAppearsIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Nora Ephron ⓘ |
| documents | Michael's behavior ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn |
drama film
ⓘ
fantasy film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation | reporter ⓘ |
| partOf | Michael (1996 film) cast of characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | William Hurt ⓘ |
| travelsWith |
Michael (archangel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Michael
|
| yearOfWorkAppearsIn | 1996 ⓘ |
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: Frank Quinlan Description of subject: Frank Quinlan is a central character in the 1996 fantasy drama film "Michael," portrayed as one of the reporters who travels with the archangel Michael and documents his unconventional behavior.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.