Varty
E936376
Varty is a character in the 1996 adventure film "Michael," which stars John Travolta as an unconventional archangel visiting Earth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Varty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11603669 — 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: Varty Context triple: [Michael (1996 film), character, Varty]
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A.
Valleiry
Valleiry is a small French commune in the Haute-Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France, near the Swiss border.
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B.
Vallon
Vallon is a small municipality in the canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland.
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C.
Arlay
Arlay is a historic locality in eastern France that served as the principal seat of the noble House of Chalon-Arlay.
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D.
Terville
Terville is a small commune in northeastern France’s Grand Est region, situated near the city of Thionville in the Moselle department.
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E.
Vagney
Vagney is a small commune in the Vosges department of northeastern France, known for its scenic setting in the Lorraine region and proximity to the Vosges Mountains.
- 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: Varty Target entity description: Varty is a character in the 1996 adventure film "Michael," which stars John Travolta as an unconventional archangel visiting Earth.
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A.
Valleiry
Valleiry is a small French commune in the Haute-Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France, near the Swiss border.
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B.
Vallon
Vallon is a small municipality in the canton of Fribourg in western Switzerland.
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C.
Arlay
Arlay is a historic locality in eastern France that served as the principal seat of the noble House of Chalon-Arlay.
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D.
Terville
Terville is a small commune in northeastern France’s Grand Est region, situated near the city of Thionville in the Moselle department.
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E.
Vagney
Vagney is a small commune in the Vosges department of northeastern France, known for its scenic setting in the Lorraine region and proximity to the Vosges Mountains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Michael ⓘ |
| appearsInFilm | Michael ⓘ |
| createdFor | film Michael ⓘ |
| hasCreator |
Jim Quinlan
ⓘ
Nora Ephron ⓘ Peter Dexter ⓘ |
| partOfCastWithCharacter | Michael (character) ⓘ |
| sharesWorkWithActor |
Andie MacDowell
ⓘ
Bob Hoskins ⓘ John Travolta ⓘ William Hurt ⓘ |
| workCinematographyBy | John Lindley ⓘ |
| workCountryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| workDirector | Nora Ephron ⓘ |
| workDistributor |
Warner Bros.
ⓘ
linked to:
Warner Bros. Pictures
|
| workEditedBy | David Brenner ⓘ |
| workGenre |
adventure film
ⓘ
fantasy film ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| workMusicBy | Randy Newman ⓘ |
| workProductionCompany |
Castle Rock Entertainment
ⓘ
Turner Pictures ⓘ
linked to:
Turner Studios
|
| workReleaseYear | 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: Varty Description of subject: Varty is a character in the 1996 adventure film "Michael," which stars John Travolta as an unconventional archangel visiting Earth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.