Doug Chesnic
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Doug Chesnic is the uptight, by-the-book Secret Service agent assigned to protect a demanding former First Lady in the comedy film "Guarding Tess."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doug Chesnic canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11680641 — 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: Doug Chesnic Context triple: [Guarding Tess, mainCharacter, Doug Chesnic]
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A.
Gilles Dowek
Gilles Dowek is a French logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in proof theory, type systems, and automated deduction.
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B.
Xavier Leroy
Xavier Leroy is a French computer scientist best known for his work on the OCaml programming language and the formally verified CompCert C compiler.
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C.
Robert Griesemer
Robert Griesemer is a Swiss software engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Go programming language at Google.
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D.
Vaughan Pratt
Vaughan Pratt is a computer scientist known for his contributions to algorithms and formal methods, including co-developing the Knuth–Morris–Pratt string-searching algorithm.
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E.
Philip Wadler
Philip Wadler is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to functional programming languages, type systems, and the theory and design of languages such as Haskell.
- 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: Doug Chesnic Target entity description: Doug Chesnic is the uptight, by-the-book Secret Service agent assigned to protect a demanding former First Lady in the comedy film "Guarding Tess."
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A.
Gilles Dowek
Gilles Dowek is a French logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in proof theory, type systems, and automated deduction.
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B.
Xavier Leroy
Xavier Leroy is a French computer scientist best known for his work on the OCaml programming language and the formally verified CompCert C compiler.
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C.
Robert Griesemer
Robert Griesemer is a Swiss software engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Go programming language at Google.
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D.
Vaughan Pratt
Vaughan Pratt is a computer scientist known for his contributions to algorithms and formal methods, including co-developing the Knuth–Morris–Pratt string-searching algorithm.
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E.
Philip Wadler
Philip Wadler is a prominent computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to functional programming languages, type systems, and the theory and design of languages such as Haskell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Guarding Tess ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1994 ⓘ |
| assignedToProtect | Tess Carlisle ⓘ |
| characterDevelopment | learns to care about Tess Carlisle ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
by-the-book
ⓘ
uptight ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Tess Carlisle ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | United States Secret Service ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Doug Chesnic ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | Secret Service agent ⓘ |
| partOf | Guarding Tess cast ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Nicolas Cage ⓘ |
| protects | former First Lady ⓘ |
| roleIn | Guarding Tess ⓘ |
| setting | Ohio ⓘ |
| workDirector | Hugh Wilson ⓘ |
| workTitle | Guarding Tess ⓘ |
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: Doug Chesnic Description of subject: Doug Chesnic is the uptight, by-the-book Secret Service agent assigned to protect a demanding former First Lady in the comedy film "Guarding Tess."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.